EBS 122 Cum RCD Financials
EBS 122 Cum RCD Financials
EBS 122 Cum RCD Financials
Financials
Releases 12.1 and 12.2 (inclusive of 12.0.2 – 12.2.12)
1. Disclaimer 1
2. Introduction 2
2.1. Purpose of Document 2
3. New and Changed Features in Financials 3
3.1. Oracle Advanced Collections 3
Release 12.1.1 3
3.1.1.1. Customer Dispute Enhancement 3
3.1.1.2. Customer Level Bankruptcy 3
3.1.1.3. Status Assignment at Case and Contract Level 3
Release 12.1.2 3
3.1.1.4. Multiple Level Collections Strategy Management 3
Release 12.1.3 4
3.1.1.5. Staged Dunning 4
Release 12.2.3 4
3.1.1.6. Ability to place a hold on Collection Strategy 4
Release 12.2.4 4
3.1.1.7. Auto Reassignment of Work Items upon change in Collector 4
3.1.1.8. Metrics by Operating Unit 4
Release 12.2.6 4
3.1.1.9. Collect on Related Accounts 4
3.1.1.10. Strategy Actionable Work Items 4
3.2. Oracle Advanced Global Intercompany System (AGIS) 5
Release 12.1.2 5
3.2.1.1. Purge Rejected Intercompany Batches from Interface Table 5
3.3. Oracle Assets 5
Release 12.1.3 5
3.3.1.1. Asset Impairment for Japan Tax Reform 2007 5
Release 12.2.8 5
3.3.1.2. New Depreciation and Amortization BI Publisher Report to Support Form 4562 Filing to US IRS 5
3.4. Oracle Assets Command Center 6
Overview 6
Release 12.2.8 6
3.4.1.1. Asset Reconciliation Dashboard 6
3.4.1.2. Asset Cost Dashboard 6
3.4.1.3. Asset Aging Dashboard 6
3.4.1.4. Asset Location Dashboard 6
3.4.1.5. Mass Transactions Dashboard 6
3.4.1.6. Additions Pipeline Dashboard 7
Release 12.2.8+ 7
3.4.1.7. Enhancements to Asset Reconciliation Dashboard 7
3.4.1.8. Enhancement to Asset Cost Dashboard 7
3.4.1.9. Enhancement to Asset Location Dashboard 7
3.4.1.10. Grouping of Attributes in Attribute Groups 7
Release 12.2.9++ 7
3.4.1.11. Export Functionality 7
3.4.1.12. Descriptive Flexfield Support 7
Release 12.2.10+ 7
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3.4.1.13. Look-Ahead Visualizations for Chart Cascading 8
3.4.1.14. Export Dashboard to PDF 8
Release 12.2.11+ 8
3.4.1.15. New Layout with Search Input and Filters at Top of Dashboard 8
3.5. Oracle Cash Management 8
Release 12.1.1 8
3.5.1.1. International Bank Account Number (IBAN) Support 8
3.5.1.2. Bank Identifier Code (BIC) Support 8
3.5.1.3. Payment Group based Bank Statement Reconciliation 8
Release 12.1.2 9
3.5.1.4. Option to Override Country-Specific Validation for Bank Accounts 9
3.5.1.5. EDIFACT Bank Statement Format Update 9
3.5.1.6. Copy Bank Transaction Codes 9
3.5.1.7. Load Bank Statements for the Current Day 9
Release 12.1.3 10
3.5.1.8. Manual Entry in Cash Position 10
Release 12.2.5 10
3.5.1.9. CAMT.053 - Bank to Customer Statement Support 10
3.6. Oracle Credit Management 10
Release 12.1.3 10
3.6.1.1. Configurable Analyst Assignment Rules 10
Release 12.2.8 10
3.6.1.2. Open Case Folder within Approval Notification 10
3.6.1.3. Capture Additional Financial Data 10
3.6.1.4. Format Additional Data Points 11
Release 12.2.9 11
3.6.1.5. Improved Display of Credit Limit Values in Case Folders 11
3.7. Oracle E-Business Tax 11
Release 12.2 11
3.7.1.1. Customer Tax Information Import 11
3.7.1.2. New Condition Set Operators for Tax Rules 11
Release 12.2.5 11
3.7.1.3. Initial and Recurring Data Load for Tax Content Partners 11
3.8. Oracle Environmental Accounting & Reporting 11
Release 12.1.3 11
3.8.1.1. Capture of Energy Usage and Environmental Data 11
3.8.1.2. Emission Sources, Scopes and Factors 12
3.8.1.3. Calculation and Classification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions 12
3.8.1.4. Environmental Ledger 12
3.8.1.5. Flexible Reporting and Organizational Structures 13
3.8.1.6. Pre-Built Analytics and Dashboard with Dynamic User Interaction 13
3.8.1.7. User-Defined Key Performance Indicators 13
3.8.1.8. Target and Threshold Definition 13
3.8.1.9. Using Web ADI to Import Setup Data 13
Release 12.2 14
3.8.1.10. Updated Carbon Disclosure Project Report 14
3.8.1.11. Enhanced Performance Dashboards 14
3.8.1.12. Enhanced Key Performance Indicators 14
Release 12.2.3 14
3.8.1.13. Water and Waste Dashboards 14
3.8.1.14. Carbon Permit Management 14
Release 12.2.4 15
3.8.1.15. Integration with Oracle Property Manager 15
3.8.1.16. Source and Item Unit of Measure Conversion 15
3.8.1.17. Organizations Targets for Emission, Energy and Usage 16
3.8.1.18. Enhanced Energy Dashboard 16
3.9. Oracle Financials Common Modules 16
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Release 12.2 16
3.9.1.1. Scheduling of AP/AR Netting Batches 16
3.10. Oracle Financials for Americas 17
Release 12.2.3 17
3.10.1.1. Brazilian CFOP – Derivation and Defaulting 17
Release 12.2.4 17
3.10.1.2. NBS – Brazilian Nomenclature of Services, Intangibles and Others 17
Release 12.2.10 18
3.10.1.3. Configure New Format for Argentina Electronic Invoicing 18
3.11. Oracle Financials for EMEA 18
Release 12.0.3 18
3.11.1.1. Assets and Payments XML Publisher Report Extracts 18
Release 12.0.4 18
3.11.1.2. XML Publisher Report Extracts: Cash Management, General Ledger, Subledger Accounting, Receivables,
Bill Presentment, Payables, Regional Localization, and Financial Common Modules 18
3.11.1.3. United Kingdom Charges Value Add Tax (VAT) 18
Release 12.1.1 18
3.11.1.4. Business Intelligence Publisher Support for Select EMEA Reports 18
3.11.1.5. Enhanced Statutory Report Extracts for Italy 19
Release 12.2.3 19
3.11.1.6. Enhance Tax Reporting 19
3.11.1.7. Italian Journal Ledger Report 19
Release 12.2.4 20
3.11.1.8. French File of Accounting Entries (FEC) 20
3.11.1.9. Italian Polyvalent Declaration 20
3.11.1.10. Norwegian GEI-S Report 21
3.11.1.11. New 2012 Portuguese Certification Requirements 21
Release 12.2.5 22
3.11.1.12. Italian Business to Government (B2G) Electronic Invoicing 22
3.11.1.13. Spanish Business to Government (B2G) Electronic Invoicing 22
Release 12.2.9 23
3.11.1.14. Italian Business to Business (B2B) Electronic Invoicing 23
3.11.1.15. United Arab Emirates: VAT Return 23
Release 12.2.11 23
3.11.1.16. Italy: e-Filing of Payables Invoices 23
3.12. Oracle Financials for India 24
Release 12.1.1 24
3.12.1.1. Retroactive Pricing Support 24
3.12.1.2. Payables Invoices Support for India 24
Release 12.1.2 24
3.12.1.3. Advanced Pricing Support for India 24
Release 12.2 24
3.12.1.4. Enhanced Bill of Entry Functionality 24
3.12.1.5. Tax Import to Receivables and Payables 25
Release 12.2.8 25
3.12.1.6. India GST 25
Release 12.2.10 25
3.12.1.7. Enabling capabilities for India e-Invoice 25
3.12.1.8. Tax collected at Source on payments received on sale of goods 26
3.13. Oracle Financials Information Discovery 26
V6 26
3.13.1.1. Oracle Financials Information Discovery V6 for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 and 12.2 26
V7 27
3.13.1.2. Oracle Financials Information Discovery V7 for Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1.3 and R12.2.6 27
3.13.1.3. Support Update 27
3.14. Oracle General Ledger 28
Release 12.1.1 28
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3.14.1.1. Enhanced Financial Statement Generator Reporting to Display Content Set Values 28
Release 12.1.2 28
3.14.1.2. Enhanced Financial Statement Generator Reporting to Support Drill-down for Non-Contiguous Account
Ranges 28
3.14.1.3. Streamlined Excel-based Financial Statement Publishing 28
Release 12.1.3 28
3.14.1.4. Synchronize Reversing Journals between Primary and Secondary Ledgers 28
3.14.1.5. Limit Accounts in Budget Wizard 28
Release 12.2 28
3.14.1.6. E-Business Suite General Ledger Integration with the Fusion Accounting Hub 28
3.14.1.7. Data Relationship Management (DRM) Integration with E-Business Suite 29
Release 12.2.4 29
3.14.1.8. WebADI Control Account Usage Restriction 29
3.14.1.9. Share Allocation Formula across Ledger Currencies 29
Release 12.2+ 29
3.14.1.10. Journal Approvals Integration with Oracle Approvals Management and Oracle Workflow 29
3.15. Oracle General Ledger Command Center 30
Overview 30
Release 12.2.12 30
3.15.1.1. Journal Processing Dashboard 30
3.15.1.2. Account Analysis Dashboard 30
3.16. Oracle Internet Expenses 30
Release 12.1.2 30
3.16.1.1. Access Expense Attachments from Invoice 30
3.16.1.2. Support Receipts Required for Mileage Category 30
3.16.1.3. Archive and Purge of Expense Reports 31
3.16.1.4. Read-Only Access to Per Diem and Mileage Details in Audit 31
3.16.1.5. AMEX Loader Option to Not Load Payment Transactions 31
Release 12.1.3 31
3.16.1.6. Expense Receipt Management Enhancements 31
3.16.1.7. Duplicate Expense Detection 31
3.16.1.8. Oracle Fusion Expenses iPhone Application for Oracle Internet Expenses 31
3.17. Oracle Mobile Expenses for E-Business Suite 32
Release 4.0 32
3.17.1.1. Oracle Fusion Expenses Mobile Application 32
3.18. Oracle iReceivables 32
Release 12.2.3 32
3.18.1.1. Registration History and Payment Audit History 32
Release 12.2.6 32
3.18.1.2. End Date Bank Account without Payment Processing 32
3.19. Oracle iReceivables Command Center 32
Overview 32
Release 12.2.8+ 33
3.19.1.1. Overview Dashboard 33
3.19.1.2. Receivables Dashboard 33
3.19.1.3. Disputes Dashboard 33
3.19.1.4. Grouping of Attributes in Attribute Groups 33
Release 12.2.9++ 33
3.19.1.5. Export Functionality 33
3.19.1.6. Improved Dispute Handling 34
Release 12.2.10+ 34
3.19.1.7. Export Dashboard to PDF 34
Release 12.2.11+ 34
3.19.1.8. New Layout with Search Input and Filters at Top of Dashboard 34
3.20. Oracle iSetup 34
Release 12.0.3 34
3.20.1.1. iSetup APIs 34
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3.21. Oracle Legal Entity Configurator 35
Release 12.1.3 35
3.21.1.1. Enhanced Legal Addresses 35
3.22. Oracle Loans 35
Release 12.1.2 35
3.22.1.1. Process Application Fees without Loan Approval 35
3.22.1.2. Ad-hoc Billing and Receipt Application 35
3.22.1.3. Loan Forgiveness 35
Release 12.1.3 36
3.22.1.4. Multiple Disbursements during Loan Servicing 36
Release 12.2.3 36
3.22.1.5. Support Changes in Repayment Frequency of Principal and Interest 36
Release 12.2.6 36
3.22.1.6. Project Account for Direct Loan Disbursement 36
3.22.1.7. Floating and Variable Interest Rates by Date 36
3.23. Oracle Payables 36
Release 12.1.1 36
3.23.1.1. Enhanced Withholding Tax Calculation for Brazil 36
3.23.1.2. Discount Calculation Enhancements 37
3.23.1.3. Subcontractor Management for Engineering and Construction 37
3.23.1.4. Supplier Dispute Processing 37
3.23.1.5. Third Party Payments 37
3.23.1.6. Business Intelligence Publisher Support for Selected Payables Reports 37
Release 12.1.2 37
3.23.1.7. Replace Supplier Bank Accounts on Invoices 37
3.23.1.8. Change Taxes from Inclusive to Exclusive Online 38
Release 12.2.2 38
3.23.1.9. Workflow Transfer of Approval 38
Release 12.2.4 38
3.23.1.10. Parallel Approval of Supplier Invoices 38
3.24. Oracle Payables Command Center 38
Overview 38
Release 12.2.8 39
3.24.1.1. Supplier Balance Dashboard 39
3.24.1.2. Holds Dashboard 39
3.24.1.3. Discounts Opportunity Dashboard 39
Release 12.2.8+ 39
3.24.1.4. Grouping of Attributes in Attribute Groups 39
Release 12.2.9++ 39
3.24.1.5. Export Functionality 39
3.24.1.6. Descriptive Flexfield Support 39
3.24.1.7. Period Close Dashboard 39
Release 12.2.10+ 40
3.24.1.8. Export Dashboard to PDF 40
Release 12.2.11+ 40
3.24.1.9. New Layout with Search Input and Filters at Top of Dashboard 40
3.24.1.10. Control Display of Invoice Payment History 40
3.24.1.11. Invoice Validation Status in Supplier Balances Dashboard 40
3.25. Oracle Payments 40
Release 12.0.3 40
3.25.1.1. Mastercard ‘S’ Record Compliance 40
3.25.1.2. Visa Compliance Table / Discover Qualification Table for FDC 40
3.25.1.3. Amex CAPN Enhancement 41
3.25.1.4. FDC Servlet Load Balancing 41
Release 12.0.6 41
3.25.1.5. Multiple Divisions per Settlement Batch Enhancement 41
3.25.1.6. Paymentech Certification 41
3.25.1.7. Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Credit Transfer Initiation Messages 41
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Release 12.1.1 41
3.25.1.8. Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Support 41
3.25.1.9. Paymentech Integration Certification 42
3.25.1.10. Positive Pay File with Additional Parameters 42
Release 12.1.2 42
3.25.1.11. PA-DSS for Credit Card Processing 42
Release 12.2 42
3.25.1.12. Payment Acknowledgement Import 42
Release 12.2.4 43
3.25.1.13. ISO 20022 Direct Debit 43
3.25.1.14. ISO 20022 Direct Debit - Multiple Mandates per Debtor Account 43
3.25.1.15. SEPA Credit Transfer - Exception Handling 43
3.25.1.16. International Bank Account Number (IBAN) Support 43
3.26. Oracle Public Sector Financials International 43
Release 12.0.3 43
3.26.1.1. Uptake of Construction Industry Scheme and Dossier Functionality 43
Release 12.0.4 43
3.26.1.2. Extension of Oracle Financials Functionality 43
3.26.1.3. Inflation Account for Assets 44
Release 12.0.6 44
3.26.1.4. Contract Commitments Integration with Self Service Purchasing 44
Release 12.2 44
3.26.1.5. Construction Industry Scheme (CIS): Exclusion of Out of Scope Contract Invoices in Monthly Returns
Reporting 44
Release 12.2.8 44
3.26.1.6. Construction Industry Scheme (CIS): Monthly Returns Resubmission 44
3.27. Oracle Receivables 45
Release 12.1.1 45
3.27.1.1. Cash Application Work Queue 45
3.27.1.2. Enhanced Line Level Cash Application 45
3.27.1.3. Enhanced Performance for High Volume Receivables Processing 45
3.27.1.4. Golden Tax Adaptor Enhancements for Mainland China 45
3.27.1.5. Business Intelligence Publisher Support for Selected Receivables Reports 46
Release 12.1.2 46
3.27.1.6. Default Customer Bank Account Information on Unidentified Receipts 46
3.27.1.7. Enhanced Aging Report to Support Multi-Fund Accounts Receivables 46
Release 12.2.2 46
3.27.1.8. Review and Manage Accounting Exceptions during Period Close 46
3.27.1.9. Automate Auto Lockbox Processing 47
3.27.1.10. Assign Customers to Unidentified Receipts using API 47
3.27.1.11. Golden Tax Adaptor Enhancement for Mainland China 47
Release 12.2.4 47
3.27.1.12. Mask Tax Payer Identification and Tax Registration Number 47
3.27.1.13. Support Querying and Consolidating for Golden Tax Transactions by Sale Order Number 47
Release 12.2.5 47
3.27.1.14. Split Golden Tax Transaction Line by Unit Price 47
3.27.1.15. Apply Receipts Automatically based on Match Score and Knapsack Method 48
Release 12.2.6 48
3.27.1.16. Multiple Tax Rates in One VAT Invoice 48
3.27.1.17. Support for Tax-Inclusive and Tax-Exclusive Business Cases 48
3.27.1.18. Manage Revenue to Address ASC 606 / IFRS 15 Accounting Principles 48
Release 12.2.7 49
3.27.1.19. Generate UBL 2.1 Electronic Invoice Document 49
Release 12.2.11 49
3.27.1.20. Thousand Separator on Profile Amounts at Customer Account and Customer Site Level 49
Release 12.2.12 49
3.27.1.21. Additional Search Parameters for Account Relationship UI 49
3.28. Oracle Receivables Command Center 49
Overview 49
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Release 12.2.8 50
3.28.1.1. Outstanding Receivables Dashboard 50
3.28.1.2. Billing Process Dashboard 50
3.28.1.3. Payment Process Dashboard 50
3.28.1.4. Payment History Dashboard 50
Release 12.2.8+ 50
3.28.1.5. Grouping of Attributes in Attribute Groups 50
Release 12.2.9++ 51
3.28.1.6. Export Functionality 51
3.28.1.7. Descriptive Flexfield Support 51
3.28.1.8. Period Close Dashboard 51
Release 12.2.10+ 51
3.28.1.9. Export Dashboard to PDF 51
Release 12.2.11+ 51
3.28.1.1. New Layout with Search Input and Filters at Top of Dashboard 51
3.29. Oracle Subledger Accounting 51
Release 12.0.3 51
3.29.1.1. Supporting References 51
Release 12.1.1 52
3.29.1.2. Historical Data Initialization for New Reporting Currencies and Secondary Ledgers 52
Release 12.1.2 52
3.29.1.3. Accounting Rules Detail Report and Enhanced Subledger Accounting Online Inquiry 52
3.29.1.4. Accounting Data On-Demand Upgrade by Subledger 52
Release 12.1.3 53
3.29.1.5. New Control Accounts Qualifier 53
3.30. Oracle Treasury 53
Release 12.1.2 53
3.30.1.1. International Bank Account Number (IBAN) Support for Counterparty Bank Accounts 53
Release 12.1.3 53
3.30.1.2. Reconcile Treasury Transactions of all Deal Types 53
3.31. Oracle U.S. Federal Financials 53
Release 12.1.2 53
3.31.1.1. Enhanced Delinquency Processing 53
Release 12.1.3 54
3.31.1.2. Updates to Year-End Close Processing 54
3.31.1.3. Extract File Changes for Central Contractor Registration (CCR) 54
Release 12.2 54
3.31.1.4. Common Government-wide Accounting Classification (CGAC) Configuration 54
Release 12.2.3 54
3.31.1.5. Government-wide Treasury Account Symbol Adjusted Trial Balance System (GTAS) Processing 54
3.31.1.6. Enhanced Intra-Governmental Payment and Collection (IPAC) Processing 55
Release 12.2.4 55
3.31.1.7. Capture of BETC, Trading Partner TAS, and Trading Partner BETC Attributes 55
3.31.1.8. Intra-governmental Payment and Collection (IPAC) Enhancements 56
3.31.1.9. Payment Automation Manager (PAM) Interface Enhancements 56
3.31.1.10. Secure Payment System (SPS) Interface Enhancements 56
3.31.1.11. System for Award Management (SAM) Interface Enhancements 56
Release 12.2.5 57
3.31.1.12. U.S. Federal: Classification Transactions and Accountability (CTA) Interface 57
3.31.1.13. U.S. Federal: Payment Information Repository (PIR) Interface 57
Release 12.2.7 58
3.31.1.14. U.S. Federal: Capture of Award Financial Attributes for Data Act Reporting 58
Release 12.2.11 58
3.31.1.15. U.S. Federal: DATA Act Information Model Scheme (DAIMS) v2.0 Changes 58
3.31.1.16. U.S. Federal: Expose Funding Group to SLA 58
Release 12.2.12 59
3.31.1.17. U.S. Federal: Accommodate Budget Object Class and Disaster Emergency Fund Code for GTAS and
Data Act Reporting Changes 59
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3.32. Tax, Legal and Regulatory Updates 59
Overview 59
Release 12.0.3 59
3.32.1.1. China National Accounting Office (CNAO) Support 59
3.32.1.2. Japan: Depreciable Assets Tax Report 59
Release 12.0.4 60
3.32.1.3. United States: Form 1099 Legislative Updates 60
Release 12.1.1 60
3.32.1.4. Brazil: Fiscal SPED – Support for Fiscal Book Generation and Electronic Invoice Integration 60
3.32.1.5. Support for Electronic Invoice Integration 60
3.32.1.6. Japan: Asset Depreciation Enhancements for Japan Tax Reform Act of 2007 61
3.32.1.7. United Kingdom: Reverse Charge VAT 61
Release 12.1.2 61
3.32.1.8. Argentina: Turnover Tax Withholding/Perception Regimes 61
3.32.1.9. Brazil: Federal SPED Regulation - Accounting SPED 62
3.32.1.10. China: Golden Tax Adapter Enhancements 63
3.32.1.11. Italy: Annual VAT Extract 64
3.32.1.12. Italy: Annual Withholding Extract 64
3.32.1.13. Japan: Enhanced Support for Tax Reform 2007/2008 64
3.32.1.14. Spain: VAT Legislation: Modelo 340 Informative Declaration 65
3.32.1.15. Spain: VAT Legislation: Modelo 347 Domestic Transactions Turnover Report Changes 65
3.32.1.16. Spain: VAT Legislation: Modelo 415 Canary Island Turnover Report Changes 66
3.32.1.17. Spain: Changes to Taxpayer ID Validation 66
3.32.1.18. United Kingdom: Support for Revaluations and Impairments per Statement of Recommended Practice for
United Kingdom Local Authority Accounting 66
3.32.1.19. U.S. Federal: New FACTS II Edit Checks and File Layout Changes 66
3.32.1.20. U.S. Federal: Enhanced Central Contractor Registration (CCR) Processing 67
3.32.1.21. Global: Support for Asset Impairment in Accordance with International Accounting Standard 36 67
3.32.1.22. Global: Year End Closing Process 67
Release 12.1.3 67
3.32.1.23. Argentina: Support for Argentina Simplified Regime (Monotributo) 67
3.32.1.24. Belgium: Annual VAT Report File Format v1.3 68
3.32.1.25. Brazil: Support for Brazilian Electronic Collection Document Process (DDA) 68
3.32.1.26. China: Support for Version 2 of the China Accounting Software Data Interface Standard 69
3.32.1.27. India: Enhanced Value Added Tax (VAT) Functionality to Support Flexible Recovery Schedule for India
69
3.32.1.28. India: Value Added Tax (VAT) Statutory Accounting and Reporting for Non-Shippable Items 69
3.32.1.29. Israel: Israel VAT Report Enhancement 69
3.32.1.30. Israel: Withholding Tax File – 856 69
3.32.1.31. U.S. Federal: Extract File Changes for Central Contractor Registration (CCR) 70
3.32.1.32. U.S. Federal: Regulatory Updates to Statement of Budgetary Resources 70
3.32.1.33. U.S. Federal: Regulatory Updates to SF-133 Report 70
3.32.1.34. Global: European Community VAT Changes for 2010 70
Release 12.2 71
3.32.1.35. Brazil: Federal SPED Regulation – Accounting SPED Updates 71
3.32.1.36. Brazil: Fiscal SPED – Electronic Invoice Layout Update (Manual 4.01) 71
3.32.1.37. Brazil: Fiscal SPED – Support for PIS/COFINS (EFD-Digital Fiscal Bookkeeping) 72
3.32.1.38. Israel: Combined VAT File (Ichud Oskim) 72
3.32.1.39. Israel: Withholding Tax File – 856 (Legal Changes 2010) 72
3.32.1.40. Portugal: Billing Software Certification 73
3.32.1.41. Spain: VAT Legislation: Modelo 349 ESL/EPL Changes 73
3.32.1.42. United Kingdom: Local Authority Revaluation and Impairment 73
3.32.1.43. U.S. Federal: New FACTS II Edits 74
Release 12.2.2 74
3.32.1.44. Belgium: Belgian VAT Annual Return Report Legal Changes 2012 74
3.32.1.45. China: China Accounting Software Data Interface Banking Standard 75
3.32.1.46. India: NSDL eTDS and eTCS Returns 75
3.32.1.47. India: TCS Product Impact Support 75
3.32.1.48. India: Service Tax Reverse Charge Mechanism 75
3.32.1.49. Russia: Enable Revaluation at Year End 75
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3.32.1.50. United Kingdom: Modulus Check Validations for Bank Accounts in the United Kingdom 76
Release 12.2.3 76
3.32.1.51. Brazil: Resolution 13 – Import Content Attributes 76
Release 12.2.5 76
3.32.1.52. Brazil: Brazilian Accounting SPED – Layout 2 76
3.32.1.53. Brazil: Brazilian Electronic Invoice NFe 3.10 77
3.32.1.54. Japan: Depreciation Adjustment for Declining-Balance Method in Corporate Tax Book 77
3.32.1.55. Mexico: Mexican Electronic Accounting - Chart of Accounts and Trial Balance - XML Files 78
3.32.1.56. Spain: Spanish Modelo 347 – Legal Changes 2014 78
3.32.1.57. United Kingdom: Local Authority: Impact of Salvage Value on Revaluation Reserve Amortization Basis
79
Release 12.2.6 79
3.32.1.58. Brazil: Brazilian Accounting SPED - Layout 3 79
3.32.1.59. Brazil: Brazilian (NFe) - Technical Notes 2015.002 / 2015.003 80
3.32.1.60. Colombia: Foreign Taxpayer ID 80
3.32.1.61. Israel: Withholding Tax Reporting Changes 2015 81
3.32.1.62. Italy: Italian VAT Plafond - Letter of Intent Process Change 2015 81
3.32.1.63. Italy: Italian Polyvalent Declaration Changes 2016 81
3.32.1.64. Japan: Japan My Number Act - Japanese Depreciable Assets Tax Reports, 2016 82
3.32.1.65. Spain: Spanish Modelo 190 - Withholding Tax File Changes 2015 82
Release 12.2.7 82
3.32.1.66. Poland: Unified Audit File - Jedolity Plik Kontrolny (JPK) 82
Release 12.2.8 83
3.32.1.67. Brazil: Brazilian Accounting SPED Layout 5 83
3.32.1.68. Brazil: Brazilian NF-e Layout 4 83
3.32.1.69. India: Configurable Tax 84
3.32.1.70. India: Configurable Recovery Schedule 84
3.32.1.71. India: Configurable Settlement Process 85
3.32.1.72. India: Delivery Challan 85
3.32.1.73. India: E-way Bill 85
3.32.1.74. Italy: Invoice Electronic Listing 85
3.32.1.75. Mexico: Mexican Electronic Accounting Version 1.3 86
3.32.1.76. Poland: Unified Audit File - Jedolity Plik Kontrolny (JPK) - 2018 Updates 87
3.32.1.77. Spain: Online VAT Register (“Suministro Inmediato de Información”, “SII”) 87
Release 12.2.9 87
3.32.1.78. Brazil: Brazilian Accounting SPED Layout 6 87
3.32.1.79. Spain: Online VAT Register (“Suministro Inmediato de Información”, “SII”) 87
Release 12.2.10 88
3.32.1.80. Polish JPK VAT Registers File changes 88
Release 12.2.11 88
3.32.1.81. Poland: Unified Audit File – JPK_VAT section 88
3.32.1.82. Poland: Unified Audit File – JPK_FA(3) section 89
3.32.1.83. Portugal: QR Code 89
3.32.1.84. Spain: Tax reports updated to accommodate UK exit from EU 89
3.32.1.85. United Kingdom: Tax Registration Number validation for Northern Ireland 90
Release 12.2.12 91
3.32.1.86. Poland: Unified Audit File – JPK_VAT section 91
4. New and Changed Features in Real Estate Management 92
4.1. Oracle Property Manager 92
Release 12.1.1 92
4.1.1.1. New Lease Statuses 92
4.1.1.2. Lease Extension Enhancements 92
4.1.1.3. Tenancy Extension and Contraction 92
4.1.1.4. Assignment Occupancy Percent Determined by Attribute on Tenancy 92
4.1.1.5. Multiple Schedules for Same Schedule Day 92
4.1.1.6. Prorating the Billing/Payment Amount based on a New Start Day Field 92
4.1.1.7. Breakpoint Flexibility 93
4.1.1.8. Updating Breakpoints 93
4.1.1.9. Natural Breakpoint Enhancements 93
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4.1.1.10. Early Termination of Agreement or Lease 93
4.1.1.11. Extension of Variable Rent Agreements 93
4.1.1.12. New Calculation Methods 93
4.1.1.13. New Partial Year Calculation Methods 93
4.1.1.14. Month-to-Month Roll Forward of Variable Rent Agreements 94
4.1.1.15. Enhancement to Cumulative Calculation Method 94
4.1.1.16. Allowances and Abatements 94
4.1.1.17. Carry Forward of Excess Abatement as Negative Rent 94
4.1.1.18. Constraints 94
4.1.1.19. Updating Volumes 95
4.1.1.20. Additional Frequency Attribute 95
4.1.1.21. Streamlining of Adjustments 95
4.1.1.22. Form Enhancements 95
4.1.1.23. Display of Calculation Results 95
4.1.1.24. Variable Rent Templates 95
4.1.1.25. Term Template Enhancements 95
4.1.1.26. Processing by Property 95
4.1.1.27. Improved Variable Rent Report 95
4.1.1.28. Early Termination of Rent Increase Agreements 96
4.1.1.29. Extension of Rent Increase Agreements 96
4.1.1.30. Month-to-Month Roll Forward 96
4.1.1.31. Index Multiplier 96
4.1.1.32. Proration 96
4.1.1.33. Term Length 96
4.1.1.34. Include/Exclude Option 96
4.1.1.35. Recurring Backbill Terms 96
4.1.1.36. Rent Increase Report 96
4.1.1.37. Create Operating Expense Agreement 96
4.1.1.38. Enter and Maintain Estimated Payment Terms 97
4.1.1.39. Reconciliation 97
4.1.1.40. Operating Expense Agreement Dashboard 98
Release 12.1.3+ 98
4.1.1.41. Business Event Workflow and Status Update 98
4.1.1.42. Lease and Terms APIs 98
4.1.1.43. Variable Rent and Breakpoint APIs 98
4.1.1.44. Index Rent APIs 98
4.1.1.45. Operating Expense Support for Advance Payments 98
4.1.1.46. Normalization Support for Multiple Amendments and Partial Periods 98
4.1.1.47. Variable Rent Agreement Invoice Date Derivation 99
4.1.1.48. GL Date Derived from Period Name 99
4.1.1.49. Rent Normalization for Mid-Month Proration 99
Release 12.2 99
4.1.1.50. Override Variable Rent Calculations Client Extensions 99
Release 12.2.8 99
4.1.1.51. Support for ASC 842 and IFRS 16 for Property and Equipment 99
Release 12.2.9 100
4.1.1.52. Improve Flexibility for Transaction Processing 100
4.1.1.53. Streamlined Amendments 100
4.1.1.54. Additions to Disclosure Reports 101
4.1.1.55. Amortization Improvements 101
4.1.1.56. Equipment Enhancements 101
4.1.1.57. View Leasing related Accounts Payable Transactions 101
Release 12.2.10 102
4.1.1.58. Option Amortization 102
4.1.1.59. Lease Detail Report 102
4.1.1.60. Future Dated Terminations 102
4.1.1.61. Linking of Payment Terms 102
4.1.1.62. Cancellation of Options 102
4.1.1.63. Streamline Lease Expense Calculations 102
4.1.1.64. Improved Lease Amortization Rounding 102
Release 12.2.12 103
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4.1.1.65. Lease Versioning 103
4.1.1.66. Simulations and Reviews through Multiple Iterations 103
4.1.1.67. Lease Amendment over Multiple Sessions and Discard 103
4.1.1.68. Lease History Tracing 103
4.1.1.69. Automatic Generation of Schedules and Lease Detail Report 103
4.1.1.70. Inclusion of Rent Increase Balances during lease Booking 103
4.1.1.71. Rent Increase Amendment 104
4.1.1.72. Amendment without any Scope Change 104
4.1.1.73. Multi-Level AME Workflow for Lease Authoring and Amendment 104
4.1.1.74. Lease Detail Report Enhancement 104
4.2. Oracle Lease Contracts Command Center 104
Overview 104
Release 12.2.9++ 104
4.2.1.1. Lease Contracts Dashboard 104
Release 12.2.10+ 105
4.2.1.2. Export Dashboard to PDF 105
Release 12.2.11+ 105
4.2.1.3. New Layout with Search Input and Filters at Top of Dashboard 105
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1. Disclaimer
This Release Content Document (RCD) describes product features that are proposed for
the specified releases of the Oracle E-Business Suite. This document describes new or
changed functionality only. Existing functionality from prior releases is not described. It
is intended solely to help you assess the business benefits of upgrading to the specified
release of the Oracle E-Business Suite.
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This document is for informational purposes only and is intended solely to assist you in
planning for the implementation and upgrade of the product features described. It is not a
commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon
in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or
functionality described in this document remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.
Due to the nature of the product architecture, it may not be possible to safely include all
features described in this document without risking significant destabilization of the code.
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2. Introduction
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3. New and Changed Features in Financials
This feature has also been back-ported to 12.0 via the standalone patch:
8522751:R12.IEX.A.
Release 12.1.2
3.1.1.4. Multiple Level Collections Strategy Management
In prior releases, collections strategies could only be executed at one business (party,
account, bill to site) at a time. Enterprises require the ability to execute strategies
simultaneously at different levels for different customers and operating units, for
example, in one region - at Bill to level, in another region – at Account level. This new
feature allows managers to setup and execute strategies at multiple collection business
levels while allowing collections agents to change specific customer strategies to
different business levels as required.
Collections managers are now able to plan and manage collections strategies that support
their unique business requirements where strategies must be executed at different
operating units, groups of customers or specific customers. Collections agents can view
strategies at different levels on their work queue and on the strategy tab. Delinquent
customers are managed at the business level most appropriate to their business model.
Additionally, background processes including collections and strategy management can
now be executed at different levels concurrently.
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Release 12.1.3
3.1.1.5. Staged Dunning
In addition to the Aged Dunning method that is based on a customer’s oldest aged
invoice, Collections organizations may now use Staged Dunning method. The Staged
Dunning method ensures the dunning notices set to a customer automatically incremented
based on the collection score and pre-defined number of days between letters being sent.
Release 12.2.3
3.1.1.6. Ability to place a hold on Collection Strategy
Collectors require the ability to place a collection strategy on hold or release it from a
hold depending on the customer’s delinquency status and the effectiveness of the strategy
used.
Collectors now have the ability to place and release holds on individual collection
strategies using the user interface or place/release collection strategy holds for individual
or all Operating Units using the Put Strategy on Hold/Release concurrent program.
Release 12.2.4
3.1.1.7. Auto Reassignment of Work Items upon change in Collector
Simplify reassignment of collector work items due to workforce changes or territory
reassignment with the Auto Reassignment of Work Item upon change in Collector
feature.
Customers now have the ability to automatically reassign work items including
Collection Strategies and Promises to pay upon a change in collector by using the new
Synchronize Collector Work concurrent program.
This feature has also been back-ported to 12.1.3 via the standalone patch:
17043270:R12.IEX.B.
3.1.1.8. Metrics by Operating Unit
Improve your organization’s insight on performance by comparing and quantifying
collectivity within and across a single or multiple Operating Units using the new Metrics
by Operating Unit option. This new option provides users the ability to view collection
metrics for a single or multiple operating units in addition to the current Global level.
This feature has also been back-ported to 12.1.3 via the standalone patch:
17043270:R12.IEX.B.
Release 12.2.6
3.1.1.9. Collect on Related Accounts
Customers require the ability to assign collectors at multiple collection levels, enabling
them to run scoring and strategies at Customer, Account, and Bill- To levels.
Customers now group parties with parent and child relationships to score, assign and
manage strategies, assign collectors, and view aggregate information on related accounts.
3.1.1.10. Strategy Actionable Work Items
Strategy Actionable Work Item template rules are now available to allow users to execute
work items based on the percentage amount collected. When the user or system
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completes the work item, post-wait, based on the amount received and associated rule
definition the system will skip or continue the next work item in the strategy.
Additionally, Strategy Templates and Work Item Templates can be defined for a specific
Operating Unit.
Release 12.2.8
3.3.1.2. New Depreciation and Amortization BI Publisher Report to Support Form 4562
Filing to US IRS
The new BI Publisher Report replaces the existing Oracle Reports Depreciation and
Amortization BI Publisher Report to Support Form 4562 Filing to US IRS. The new
report provides both summary and detailed report formats with new grouping of data and
additional information which makes Form 4562 filing easier. Furthermore, as it is a BI
Publisher report, the output is available in pdf, excel, rtf, html, and xml.
The summary report groups data by asset book, balancing segment value, fiscal year,
useful life in years, and depreciation method. It displays balances for cost, cost basis,
depreciation deduction, YTD depreciation, and annual special depreciation. The summary
report format report enables you to more readily fill in Form 4562.
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The detailed report provides a detailed breakdown at an asset by asset level to support the
summary report. It displays asset level information (Asset Number, Asset Description,
Date Placed in Service), along with other financial attributes similar to the summary
report, at each asset category, prorate convention, depreciation method, useful life in
years, fiscal year, and balancing segment level.
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actionable links to Oracle Assets for you to ensure all pending transactions are processed
in time in order to close asset books with confidence in the asset data
3.4.1.6. Additions Pipeline Dashboard
The Additions Pipeline dashboard enables you to get an early assessment of any
transactions in Oracle Payables and Oracle Projects, which are tracked as assets but not
yet transferred to Oracle Assets, to help you forecast the significance to your asset base of
upcoming asset capitalization.
Release 12.2.8+
The following functionality requires Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework
Release 12.2 V2.
3.4.1.7. Enhancements to Asset Reconciliation Dashboard
The Asset Reconciliation dashboard has been enhanced to show General Ledger balances
and Subledger Accounting balances for assets in new multi-metric graphs making it easy
to identify at a glance any reconciliation discrepancies. An aggregate results table also
shows the comparison of asset balances for Subledger Accounting balances and General
Ledger balances that can be viewed by major (and minor) category, cost center, or
account.
3.4.1.8. Enhancement to Asset Cost Dashboard
The Asset Cost dashboard displays a new line chart to give better insight into asset peaks
and troughs by providing asset count by Date Placed in Service.
3.4.1.9. Enhancement to Asset Location Dashboard
The Asset Location dashboard has improved search capabilities by enabling drill-down
on location hierarchy.
3.4.1.10. Grouping of Attributes in Attribute Groups
Attribute groups are logical groupings of attributes for display purpose. Grouping helps
productive navigation through details within each of the dashboards in the Oracle Assets
Command Center. Attribute groups improve the search capabilities by enabling you to
refine and narrow your search on data by attributes arranged into logical groups such as
asset, financial, source data and lease.
Release 12.2.9++
The following functionality requires Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework (ECC)
Release 12.2 V4.
3.4.1.11. Export Functionality
You can export results table data to a csv file (across all dashboards).
3.4.1.12. Descriptive Flexfield Support
Display of Descriptive Flexfield (DFF) attributes in ECC dashboards dynamically, which
allow search and filter by DFF attributes.
Release 12.2.10+
The following functionality requires Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework (ECC)
Release 12.2 V7.
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3.4.1.13. Look-Ahead Visualizations for Chart Cascading
You can visualizing the chart cascading in Asset Cost, Asset Aging, Asset Location
dashboards. Which helps enhance the information discovery experience through the
chart.
3.4.1.14. Export Dashboard to PDF
You can now export data from Assets dashboards to a PDF, which you can print or share
electronically for team collaboration.
Release 12.2.11+
The following functionality requires Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework (ECC)
Release 12.2 V8.
3.4.1.15. New Layout with Search Input and Filters at Top of Dashboard
At top of each Asset dashboard, you can with fewer clicks enter a general search. In a
second field, you can view the resulting filters, and add or remove filters.
The original refinements that used to be shown on the left-hand side of the dashboard are
now hidden by default to allow more data display within each dashboard.
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Release 12.1.2
3.5.1.4. Option to Override Country-Specific Validation for Bank Accounts
Sometimes legacy bank account numbers do not conform to modern country-specific
validation rules. Users can now disable the default country-specific bank validations to
migrate legacy bank account information.
This feature has also been back-ported to following releases:
Release Patch Number
12.0.4 7582842:R12.CE.A
12.1.1 8871846:R12.CE.B
3.5.1.5. EDIFACT Bank Statement Format Update
The bank statement loader program supports EDIFACT statements. With this release, the
following additional data processing features are addressed:
• Support for non-numeric characters in bank balances. The opening and closing
balance amounts sent in the EDIFACT statements contain non-numeric
characters. The bank statement loader and import program is enhanced to
convert the non-numeric characters into numeric values.
• Support loading and importing the Record 05. The current seeded loader is
enhanced to handle the record type 05. This additional record is defined as part
of the EDIFACT standard and contains the contextual information of Record 04.
This feature been back-ported to following releases:
Release Patch Number
12.0.4 8874185:R12.CE.A
12.1.1 8942035:R12.CE.B
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Release 12.1.3
3.5.1.8. Manual Entry in Cash Position
The cash position functionality has been enhanced to allow cash managers the ability to
manually enter cash flows into their cash positions allowing for greater flexibility in their
decision-making process.
This feature been back-ported to following releases:
Release Patch Number
12.0.6 9059098:R12.CE.A
12.1.1 9059098:R12.CE.B
Release 12.2.5
3.5.1.9. CAMT.053 - Bank to Customer Statement Support
The CAMT.053 Bank to Customer Statement messaging is used to inform account
owners of the entries booked in their bank account and to provide account owners with
balance information.
Additionally, the CAMT.053 Bank to customer Statement provides reporting of the post
settlement returns and reversals of the direct debit transactions.
Oracle Cash Management contains the following features for supporting the use of
CAMT.053 Bank to Customer Statement messaging:
• Loading and processing of the CAMT.053 bank statement format
• Matching and automatic reconciliation of SEPA direct debit transactions
• Automatic reconciliation of bank statements with direct debit reversals and
returns.
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3.6.1.4. Format Additional Data Points
Oracle Credit Management provides credit analysts the ability to add additional data
points to credit application checklists and case folders to capture data not covered by the
seeded data points. Credit analysts now have the ability to format the data for the
additional data points to improve their readability in credit applications and case folders.
Release 12.2.9
3.6.1.5. Improved Display of Credit Limit Values in Case Folders
The Credit Limit value display in Case Folders has been enhanced in Oracle Credit
Management to display the Credit Limit value as at the time it was processed in the
original Case Folder (as opposed to displaying current Credit Limit value of the
customer) to provide a more accurate audit trail.
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users with a familiar and consistent experience maintaining data integrity and security
with a single source of truth and ensuring data completeness and accuracy. Integration
with the native ERP system reduces environmental data management costs, leveraging
existing IT systems, minimizing organizational impacts and assuring rapid time to value.
3.8.1.2. Emission Sources, Scopes and Factors
An emission factor is the quantity of a greenhouse gas emitted per unit of energy (kg
CO2-e /GJ), fuel (kg CO2-e/t coal) or a similar measure. The EA&R application provides
the ability to define, change and update emission sources and factors, automatically
determining the correct transformation factors for each transaction. It also enables users
to select location specific energy and emission factors for environmental accounting of
transactions that are related to emission sources. It also enables setup of custom emission
factors. Emission transformation factors are stored and can readily be updated over time
with date effectiveness to manage the change of emissions factors and for recalculation
purposes.
Emission calculation techniques range from usage of emission factors to direct
monitoring. The most common techniques used for emission calculation are:
• Calculations based on the purchased quantities of commercial fuels, such as
natural gas and heating oil, using published emission factors. This method is used
for Scope 1 emissions.
• Calculations based on metered electricity consumption and supplier-specific,
local grid, or other published emission factors. This method is used for Scope 2
emissions.
• Calculations based on activity data such as fuel use or passenger miles and
published or third-party emission factors. This type of emissions is usually
classified as Scope 3 emissions.
Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting allows you to update historical factors
using the GHG Sources window and provides the “Recalculate Emissions” concurrent
program to recalculate the emission and energy values based on the revised factors.
The solution enables complete audit trail for entries and updates reducing data assurance
costs.
3.8.1.3. Calculation and Classification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting provides the built-in mechanisms for
calculating emissions and classifying them as Scope 1, 2, or 3 using the Greenhouse Gas
Protocol guidelines published by the World Resources Institute. The Emissions
Calculation Engine uses the collected usage data to calculate the relevant emissions using
seeded formulas based on the energy and emission factors setup for the emission sources.
This enables organization to accurately communicate greenhouse gas emissions and other
environmental impacts to constituents including regulators, customers, shareholders and
employees.
3.8.1.4. Environmental Ledger
The Environmental Ledger stores all changes to the environmental transactions including
voiding, reversal, recalculation, and measurement criterion updating transactions. The
changing landscape of compliance mandates drives companies to provide more
comprehensive, transparent, accurate and auditable data. Oracle Environmental
Accounting and Reporting allows you to have a single source of truth assuring data
quality and auditability.
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3.8.1.5. Flexible Reporting and Organizational Structures
Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting enables the creation of Environmental
Organizations. An organization is defined as a single undertaking or an enterprise or any
entity that performs activities or a series of activities that emit greenhouse gases and/or
produces, or consumes energy at a single site and is attributable to a single industry
sector. An organization can have multiple hierarchies for reporting, for example,
government reporting hierarchy, operational hierarchy, or legal structure hierarchy. In
addition, an organization can be a division, company subsidiary, or operation (i.e.
facilities, plants). The integration with the native ERP enables leveraging existing
structures as well as specifying additional hierarchies for GHG Protocol and other
reporting guidelines, including the ability to define aggregation levels and to manage
acquisitions and divestitures.
3.8.1.6. Pre-Built Analytics and Dashboard with Dynamic User Interaction
Pre-built Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) dashboards enable the
dynamic generation of reports providing insight into an organization’s emissions and
other environmental impacts. The dashboards provide information on energy usage,
emissions, key performance indicators (KPIs), activities and transactions. Users can view
graphical representations of the data; drill down into output of past, current, and projected
data; analyze historical trends; define variance thresholds and receive alerts; and publish
and distribute reports in multiple formats. The pre-built OBIEE reporting and analytics
dashboards also include the quantitative responses to the Carbon Disclosure Project
(CDP). OBIEE’s powerful and flexible framework allows for the quick creation of
reports for reporting schemes such as Climate Registry (USA), EPA 40 CFR Part 98 Rule
(USA), Carbon Reduction Commitment (UK), and National Greenhouse and Energy
Reporting Act (Australia). Measuring performance and setting targets allows
organizations to become more productive, profitable and sustainable by providing
powerful insights into high opportunity areas for emissions reductions, energy savings,
and cost savings. In addition, OBIEE allows users to quickly create custom user defined
reports.
3.8.1.7. User-Defined Key Performance Indicators
Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting enables organizations to create and
modify standard and custom industry-specific key performance indicators (KPIs) to
measure performance and monitor key environmental metrics such as energy, waste, and
water. Users can normalize data to operational metrics and use a drag-and-drop
environment in OBIEE to create custom reports. Examples of these KPIs are energy
usage per square foot, water usage by employee, etc. Using these metrics organizations
can benchmark and affect behavioral change to reduce environmental impacts in the
relative context of the organization’s growth.
3.8.1.8. Target and Threshold Definition
Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting enables organizations to establish a
baseline of its greenhouse gas emissions, energy usage, and other key environmental
indicators and set reductions targets. Graphical indicators on the Business Intelligence
dashboards illustrate to users on a timely basis whether the organization is performing
above, below, or in-line with the targets so that corrective actions can be taken as needed
to successfully execute on the organization’s sustainability initiatives.
3.8.1.9. Using Web ADI to Import Setup Data
Users are able to leverage the Web ADI framework in Oracle E-Business Suite to import
setup data into the Environmental Accounting & Reporting application. Data that can be
imported using this interface includes Sources, KPI Definitions, Targets, and
Organizations.
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Release 12.2
3.8.1.10. Updated Carbon Disclosure Project Report
One of the pre-built OBIEE reporting and analytics dashboards supported in EA&R
covers the quantitative responses to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). The Carbon
Disclosure Project report has been enhanced to support additional questions under the
2011 guidelines. The dashboard can now display: emissions in metric tons, emission
factors applied for GHG calculations and their origin; breakdown of Scope 1 and Scope 2
emissions by activity; amount of fuel, electricity, heat, steam, and cooling in MWh
consumed by an organization during the reporting year; breakdown of fuel usage by fuel
type; year by year comparison of combined Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions; year by year
comparison of Scope 3 emissions by source; and gross combined Scope 1 and 2
emissions for the reporting year in metric tons CO2e per full time equivalent (FTE)
employee.
3.8.1.11. Enhanced Performance Dashboards
Pre-built Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) dashboards enable the
dynamic generation of reports providing insight into an organization’s emissions and
other environmental impacts. The dashboards provide information on energy usage,
emissions, key performance indicators (KPIs), activities and transactions. Users can view
graphical representations of the data; drill down into output of past, current, and projected
data; analyze historical trends; define variance thresholds and receive alerts; and publish
and distribute reports in multiple formats. In this release additional pre-built reports have
been added including the Scope 3 Emissions and Emissions by Organization Level
dashboards.
3.8.1.12. Enhanced Key Performance Indicators
Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting enables organizations to create and
modify standard and custom industry-specific key performance indicators (KPIs) to
measure performance and monitor key environmental metrics such as energy, waste, and
water. Users can normalize data to operational metrics and use a drag-and-drop
environment in OBIEE to create custom reports. In the 12.2 release it is now possible to
set a threshold in the KPI Metrics history page highlighting to users whether the
organization is performing above, below or in-line with the targets so that corrective
actions can be taken as needed to successfully execute on the organization’s sustainability
initiatives.
Release 12.2.3
3.8.1.13. Water and Waste Dashboards
EA&R is being enhanced to provide a new set of out-of-the-box dashboards to
accommodate new requirements for reporting based on legislation and competitive
pressure. These new requirements include the addition of a Water and Waste Dashboard
reports including Water Consumption, Water Recycled/Reused by Period, and Total
Solid Waste produced by period, Solid Waste Recovered and Recycled by Period, Solid
Waste to Landfill by Period.
3.8.1.14. Carbon Permit Management
Emissions trading or cap-and-trade is a market-based approach used to control pollution
by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants.
Governments set a limit or cap on the amount of a pollutant that may be emitted. The
limit or cap is allocated or sold to firms in the form of emissions permits which represent
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the right to emit or discharge a specific volume of the specified pollutant. Firms are
required to hold a number of permits (or carbon credits) equivalent to their emissions.
Typically, in carbon tax and emission trading schemes, significant penalties apply for not
surrendering the correct amount of permits by the compliance date. Companies need to
establish processes to actively manage trading of permits, such as funding purchases
when needed and understanding which permits can be used to meet their liabilities.
Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting (EA&R) helps these companies
calculate the correct number of carbon permits required for the specified reporting period.
The new Carbon Permit Management report tracks emission data by region / legislation
to show the number of carbon permits which must be surrendered to be complaint.
Release 12.2.4
3.8.1.15. Integration with Oracle Property Manager
This release provides a new integration which brings the organizational hierarchy defined
in Oracle Property Manager into Oracle Environmental Accounting & Reporting. Data
entities for Region, Property, Building, Floor, and Office are imported from Oracle
Property Manager along with their implicit hierarchy to create a new default hierarchy in
the Environmental Accounting & Reporting module. This hierarchy is called the ‘GHG
Property Manager Organization Hierarchy’ and has six levels, namely:
Level Number Entity Type
1 Company Name
2 Region
3 Property
4 Building
5 Floor
6 Office
The information brought across from Property Manager for these entities includes any
associated tenure, disposition, area, and headcount data and are displayed in the ‘Property
Details’ tab for each Environmental Organization. These property details are
synchronized over time to capture any ongoing changes that are made in Property
Manager.
A new setup feature called 'Property Types' maintains a mapping between the Property
Types in Property Manager and the Organization Types maintained in Environmental
Accounting & Reporting.
For organizations that do not use Oracle Property Manager the property details can be
entered directly in Environmental Accounting & Reporting for each Environmental
Organization.
3.8.1.16. Source and Item Unit of Measure Conversion
This feature enables users to set up an additional unit of measure conversion specific to
an Environmental Source or Item. For example:
• Grease is typically purchased in kilograms but for the purposes of calculating
emissions the rates provided consider grease as a liquid and thus require a
volumetric unit.
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• Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) can be purchased by cylinder size or cylinder
weight but the energy content factors are based on volumetric units such as
kiloliters or gallons.
• In most cases purchased electricity does not have an associated Item in the source
transactions (i.e. electricity is purchased in kWh) but there may be some cases
where electricity is purchased based on the use of an Item (e.g. the number of
gallons of diesel oil required to power a generator) requiring an additional
conversion.
This release enables the users to setup conversions specific to either Environmental
Sources or Items to address scenarios such as the ones described above. This UOM
conversion capability is above and beyond the standard unit of measure conversion
previously supported by the application.
The Source UOM conversion assumes higher precedence over the standard UOM
conversion in selecting the conversion factors at the time of emission calculation. For
conversions where there is a related Item the source UOM conversion assumes the higher
precedence over both the standard and Item UOM conversion when the emissions are
calculated.
3.8.1.17. Organizations Targets for Emission, Energy and Usage
Users now have the ability to set performance targets at the organizational level for
Energy, Emissions, and Usage for specific periods thus enabling organizations to drive
performance improvements on an ongoing basis. A new dashboard enables ongoing
visual comparison of the actual performance of the organization versus the targets that
have been set.
3.8.1.18. Enhanced Energy Dashboard
The existing energy dashboard has been enhanced to include four additional tabs,
namely: Summary, Energy by Scope, Energy by Source, and Energy by Organization
Type. The existing tab has been renamed to Energy by Organization.
The Summary tab now displays two reports: (i) Energy History displaying a graphical
representation of the history of the energy consumed by the organization and (ii) Energy
by Year showing the energy consumed by an organization for a specific period.
The Energy by Scope dashboard displays a graphical representation of the energy usage
of an organization by Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 as per the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.
The Energy by Source page displays a graphical and tabular representation of the energy
consumed by the organization for each of the environmental sources.
The Energy by Organization Type dashboard presents reports showing the energy usage
broken down by the organizational levels based on the Organization Type.
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3.10. Oracle Financials for Americas
Release 12.2.3
3.10.1.1. Brazilian CFOP – Derivation and Defaulting
The CFOP (Fiscal Code of Operations and Services code is a 4-digit code defined by the
National Tributary System in Brazil.
CFOP contains information on the good’s origin as well as the type of operation, such as
sales, returns, stock transfers, or services.
As part of the Fiscal SPED and NF-e (electronic invoice), any transactions related to
Purchase, Sales and Transfer of Goods or Services are codified through the CFOP. This
code is reported on each line of the NF-e.
Oracle Brazilian Receivables has been modified to perform automatic derivation and
defaulting of CFOP codes from the setup onto the Receivables transaction lines.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support Knowledge
Document
12.0.6 16799315:R12.JL.A 1571347.1
12.1.x 16799315:R12.JL.B 1571347.1
Release 12.2.4
3.10.1.2. NBS – Brazilian Nomenclature of Services, Intangibles and Others
The transactions between Brazilian and foreign residents/domiciled, involving services,
intangibles and other operations that produce variations in entities’ equity, among which
the operations of acquisition and sales of services, are required to be reported to the
Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade - MDIC through the SISCOSERV.
These operations shall observe the classification rules established by the Brazilian
Nomenclature of Services, Intangibles and Others, by indicating the corresponding NBS
code.
This feature provides the following:
• Define NBS Codes
• Associate NBS Codes to Inventory Items and Item Templates
• Manually enter NBS Code at invoice line level in both Payables and
Receivables
• Import invoices with respective NBS Code at invoice line level.
This feature has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support Knowledge
Document
11.5.10 17593893 1606101.1
12.0.6 17593871:R12.JE.A 1606101.1
12.1.x 17593871:R12.JE.B 1606101.1
12.2.x 17593871:R12.JE.C 1606101.1
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Release 12.2.10
3.10.1.3. Configure New Format for Argentina Electronic Invoicing
Enhancement to support enablement for Argentina electronic invoicing (e-Invoicing).
For years, branch numbers used 4-digit length. In August 2018, the AFIP extended
branch field size to 5-digit length: Branch field is mandatory in Argentina e-Invoicing
This feature has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support Knowledge
Document
12.1.x 28891272:R12.JL.B 2616558.1
12.2.x 28891272:R12.JL.C 2616558.1
Release 12.0.4
3.11.1.2. XML Publisher Report Extracts: Cash Management, General Ledger, Subledger
Accounting, Receivables, Bill Presentment, Payables, Regional Localization, and Financial
Common Modules
Standard XML Publisher Report extracts for key operational and statutory reports are
now available to European users for Cash Management, General Ledger, Subledger
Accounting, Receivables, Bill Presentment, Payables, Regional Localizations and
Financial Common Modules.
3.11.1.3. United Kingdom Charges Value Add Tax (VAT)
United Kingdom users are now able to identify reverse charge VAT transactions and
ensure the appropriate tax rules are applied. Sales Invoices containing reverse charge
VAT transactions are printed with a reverse charge message. Additionally, a new United
Kingdom Reversed Charges VAT report is available.
Release 12.1.1
3.11.1.4. Business Intelligence Publisher Support for Select EMEA Reports
The following Oracle Financials for EMEA reports have been re-written utilizing the
Business Intelligence Publisher (BIP) tool. BIP based reports offer greater flexibility to
end users in changing report layouts and formats.
• Payables Turnover Report
• Supplier Statements
• Receivables Aggregate VAT Statement
• Customer Statements
• Regional Cash Desk Report
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• Account Analysis Report
• Account Analysis Detailed Reporting.
Release 12.2.3
3.11.1.6. Enhance Tax Reporting
Oracle Financials for EMEA Oracle Financials for EMEA VAT Reporting functionality
has been enhanced to support the reporting of Reverse Charge / Self-Assessment of taxes.
Reverse charge (a.k.a. self-assessment) occurs when customers (i.e. purchasers), as
opposed to suppliers, are responsible for calculating, accounting for and paying taxes due
to tax authorities.
The EMEA VAT Reporting Entities Setup window and following reports have been
modified to support this reporting:
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This feature has also been back-ported to 12.1.x via the standalone patch:
16839303:R12.JE.B.
Release 12.2.4
3.11.1.8. French File of Accounting Entries (FEC)
Effective January 1st 2014, companies subject to tax in France and under audit by the
French tax authorities are required to produce a file of all the companies’ accounting
entries lines by Legal Entity and fiscal year in a prescribed electronic format.
The new Audit File (FEC – Fichier d’Ecritures Comptables) consists of all the required
accounting entries (non aggregated – detailed as opposed to centralized) in French
GAAP, numbered in chronological and sequential order by validation date with no gaps
including beginning of year journals, transfer pricing, income tax, and VAT data from all
modules that generate accounting entries.
The feature consists of:
• A new BI Publisher extract with the required eighteen data elements for the
FEC Audit File
• A custom BI publisher RTF template in the required French Ministry of
Finance DVNI specified format
• Opening balances are reported in the FEC files as the very first accounting
entry lines.
• Accounting Sequencing; journal line entries from GL and accounting line
entries from subledgers are sequenced in chronological order by
validation/posting date
• Changes to the ‘French GL Reports’ Request group; inclusion of the French
Accounting Entries Audit File concurrent program.
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Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
11.5.10 18120411 1613490.1
12.0.6 18068117:R12.JE.A 1613490.1
12.1.x 18068117:R12.JE.B 1613490.1
12.2.x 18068117:R12.JE.C 1613490.1
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Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
11.5.10 17438984 1597808.1
12.0.6 17499846:R12.JE.A 1597808.1
12.1.x 17499846:R12.JE.B 1597808.1
12.2.x 17499846:R12.JE.C 1597808.1
Release 12.2.5
3.11.1.12. Italian Business to Government (B2G) Electronic Invoicing
The Italian Law 244/2007 requires all invoices issued against Italian public sector entities
(B2G) be in the XML format per technical standards defined by the Italian authorities.
This update addresses the following requirements:
• Enable Electronic Invoice Generation for B2G transactions
• Ensure the Electronic Invoice contains all mandatory and a set of optional data
elements
• Provide a data field to capture the Electronic Invoice Status
• Automatically update the Electronic Invoice Status when the invoice is generated
for the first time
• Provide an XML template in accordance to the XML layout defined by the
Italian authorities for B2G transactions.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.0.x 19180014:R12.JE.A 1910728.1
12.1.x 19180014:R12.JE.B 1910728.1
12.2.x 19180014:R12.JE.C 1910728.1
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This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.0.x 20384652:R12.JE.A 1961196.1
12.1.x 20384652:R12.JE.B 1961196.1
12.2.x 20384652:R12.JE.C 1961196.1
Release 12.2.9
3.11.1.14. Italian Business to Business (B2B) Electronic Invoicing
Since Release 12.2.5 Oracle Financials already provided the capability of Italian Business
to Government (B2G) electronic invoicing. From January1, 2019 the requirement will be
extended to Business to Business (B2B) invoicing
The previous Italian Business to Government (B2G) Electronic Invoicing feature was
enhanced in order to meet the B2B requirement.
The changes are:
• Enable GDF segments to setup customer permanent establishment
• Enable GDF segments to setup customer tax representative
• Enable to setup customer certified email (“PEC”)
• Enable to submit massive electronic invoices generation by new report
parameters:
o Customer Profile Class
o Transaction Class
o Transaction Type
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.1.x 28956057:R12.JE.B 1910728.1
12.2.x 28956057:R12.JE.C 1910728.1
Release 12.2.11
3.11.1.16. Italy: e-Filing of Payables Invoices
The Italian Law 178/2020 (2021 budget law) and Italian Law 2021/215 established that
business must submit foreign payables invoices (specifically, intra-EU purchases of
goods, import of goods, and purchases of services abroad) by the e-Filing of Payables
Invoices. The mandatory date is January July 1, 2022.
This update addresses the following requirements:
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• Enables Electronic Invoice Generation for invoices in Oracle Payables
• Ensures the Electronic Invoice contains all mandatory and a set of optional data
elements
• Provides a data field to capture the Electronic Invoice Status
• Automatically updates the Electronic Invoice Status when the invoice is
generated for the first time
• Provides the electronic file in accordance to the XML layout defined by the
Italian authorities for e-invoice
Release 12.1.2
3.12.1.3. Advanced Pricing Support for India
Oracle Financials for India now allows users to calculate excise and VAT assessable
values based on the advanced price list. The advanced price list is based on the item
category. Users can associate a price list with an item category to determine assessable
values for all items classified under that category.
Release 12.2
3.12.1.4. Enhanced Bill of Entry Functionality
The Bill of Entry functionality has been enhanced to allow users to:
• Create bill of entry records referencing documents such as Purchase Orders,
Releases, and Advanced Shipping Billing Notices
• Account for custom duty taxes at the tax type level
• Assign taxable basis based on landed cost or assessable value
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• Calculate taxable basis using exchange rates specified by customs.
3.12.1.5. Tax Import to Receivables and Payables
Users now have the ability to import legacy application computed taxes or use Oracle
Financials for India to calculate taxes for receivables and payables transactions on
import.
Release 12.2.8
3.12.1.6. India GST
GST was the single largest tax reform in Indian history where majority of the transaction
taxes were subsumed under GST regime.
Re-engineered the Oracle Financials for India solution for enabling compliance to new
Indian GST requirements. Features and functionalities that are relevant under the new GST
regime as well as other prevailing tax regimes were subsumed to the new GST solution
architecture. The GST solution supports many new features and functionalities which
include:
• User configurable 1st party GST registration with provision to associate the GST
registered jurisdiction at Operating unit level or inventory organization level.
• User configurable Tax Regimes, Tax types, Taxable events and Tax Accounts.
• Tax rates configuration with effective dates (Start and end dates).
• Tax defaulting based on user configurable rules.
• Reporting codes for extending data points for regulatory compliance.
• Enabling capabilities for GST recovery with provision for tracking interim
recovery and final recovery.
• GST calculation under Reverse charge mechanism.
• GST on Payments received in advance and its offset.
• Enabling capabilities for GST settlement.
• Configurable options for Tax invoice document sequencing and tax invoice
generation either on ship confirm or on AR invoice.
• Provisions for post supply adjustments as per GST compliance norms (debit note,
Credit note and supplementary invoice).
The enhanced features and functionalities can be effectively deployed for configuring non-
GST type of taxes (like TCS, VAT, State Excise etc.) as well as for configuring the
withholding Tax (TDS). The new solution infrastructure was designed to provide extensive
user configurable options that enables regulatory compliance for many existing and rapidly
changing compliance requirements.
Release 12.2.10
3.12.1.7. Enabling capabilities for India e-Invoice
Extended India Tax invoice generation capabilities for enabling compliance to India e-invoice
requirements. New features support:
• Option for extracting the invoice data in a specified format for onward electronic
communication with Government portal for complying with e-invoice norms
• Provision to receive specified information from Government portal like IRN
details along with data points for generating QR code that can be included while
generating the tax invoice.
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3.12.1.8. Tax collected at Source on payments received on sale of goods
Support calculation of TCS under Section 206C(1)H on receipt of payments towards sale of
goods beyond prescribed threshold limits with provision for generating debit note to customer
for collecting the TCS levied under the new regulation.
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take actions to resolve all disputes faster, thus greatly improving supplier relationships.
With the help of Discount Opportunity page, Payables departments can streamline cash
flow and effectively manage working capital by taking timely discounts.
Four pages are provided with the Oracle Financials Information Discovery for Oracle
Assets. The Asset Cost page offers superior navigation and discovery capabilities into all
financial transactions affecting asset values and provides reconciliation of asset cost and
accumulated depreciation in Oracle Assets to balances in Oracle General Ledger. Graphs
enable drill-down to data, which is dynamically updated as you narrow your search,
enabling you to take action to resolve discrepancies, correctly categorize assets and
analyze root causes of inaccuracies. The Asset Aging page offers insight into remaining
life of your assets with easy overview of asset cost, accumulated depreciation and net
book value and offers actionable links to submit a work request in Oracle Enterprise
Asset Management, to create a new purchase requisition in Oracle Procurement or to
retire an asset in Oracle Assets. The Asset Location page tracks fixed assets across all
locations and give the opportunity to explore assignments to employees to detect
discrepancies in cost center assignments and provide actionable links to execute asset
transfers and assignments in Oracle Assets in order to resolve missing assignments or
misallocated resources. The Mass Transactions page offers insight into pending
transactions such as mass additions, mass reclassifications, mass revaluations and mass
transfers. It provides actionable links to Oracle Assets for the asset accountant to ensure
all pending transactions are processed on time in order to close asset books with
confidence.
V7
3.13.1.2. Oracle Financials Information Discovery V7 for Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1.3
and R12.2.6
Oracle Financials Information Discovery for Oracle Assets has been enhanced to include
two new pages, namely ‘Asset Reconciliation’ and ‘Sub-ledger Additions Pipeline’. In
the Account Reconciliation page, you can view account balance reconciliations and
quickly identify any discrepancies between sub-ledger accounting balances for Oracle
Assets and Oracle General Ledger balances for asset cost, CIP cost, asset clearing, CIP
clearing account, and Accumulated Depreciation. The Sub-ledger Additions Pipeline
page enables you to get an early estimate of any transactions in Oracle Payables and
Oracle Projects, which are tracked as assets but not yet transferred to Oracle Assets, to
assess the significance to your asset base.
In addition to the original full asset load into Oracle Financials Information Discovery
tables, further capability has been added to enable you to load mass transactions
incrementally into Oracle Financials Information Discovery.
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3.14. Oracle General Ledger
Release 12.1.1
3.14.1.1. Enhanced Financial Statement Generator Reporting to Display Content Set
Values
Users can now publish a Financial Statement Generator (FSG) report with a content set.
When the Page Expand option is selected, each value in the content set becomes visible
as an individual tab in the Microsoft Excel workbook.
Release 12.1.2
3.14.1.2. Enhanced Financial Statement Generator Reporting to Support Drill-down for
Non-Contiguous Account Ranges
General Ledger provides a streamlined drill path from the monetary amounts in financial
statements to the underlying detail balances. After running a FSG report, users can drill
from any summarized financial balance in the report directly to the detail account
balances that comprise the summary amount, even if the summary amount represents
multiple non-contiguous account ranges.
This process allows users to perform the drill down efficiently in one step and eliminates
the need to perform multiple searches by selecting one account range at a time. It also
improves usability by enabling the user to see all the information on a single page.
3.14.1.3. Streamlined Excel-based Financial Statement Publishing
Users can now publish FSG reports natively as Excel files. Users can create presentation
templates using Excel, and then run reports using BI Publisher’s Excel publishing
capabilities to generate an Excel file that opens directly in Excel. Users can then drill to
the underlying details, leveraging General Ledger’s Account Analysis and Drilldown
capability.
Release 12.1.3
3.14.1.4. Synchronize Reversing Journals between Primary and Secondary Ledgers
Oracle General Ledger now streamlines the propagation of journal reversals from the
primary ledger to the associated secondary ledgers. The manual reversal of primary
ledger journal entries now automatically reverses the corresponding journal entries in the
secondary ledger.
3.14.1.5. Limit Accounts in Budget Wizard
In prior releases, users could only use specific account code combinations ranges in the
Oracle General Ledger Budget Wizard to limit accounts for the budget entry process.
The Budget Wizard now allows users to use low and high values for one or more
segments in the account range.
Release 12.2
3.14.1.6. E-Business Suite General Ledger Integration with the Fusion Accounting Hub
E-Business Suite (EBS) General Ledger integration with the Fusion Accounting Hub
allows users to take advantage of new Fusion General Ledger capabilities, such as
embedded Essbase integration with real-time analytics.
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Using the Fusion General Ledger for financial reporting has several advantages:
• Generate boardroom ready financial statements
• Analyze variances with exception-based online account monitoring
• Online slice-and-dice account analysis.
This integration includes a program that creates and transfers Fusion journals to record
EBS period balances, and the ability to drill-down from Fusion to EBS. When balances
are transferred, it is possible to apply mappings to update EBS General Ledger period
and/or the account values.
Release 12.2.4
3.14.1.8. WebADI Control Account Usage Restriction
Presently, users could only be prevented from creating manual journal entries for third
party control accounts within the General Ledger Journals User Interface. Now with the
Restrict Usage of Control Accounts in Journals created through WebADI feature, this
control has been extended to the WebADI journal entry templates. With this feature, you
can ensure that journal entries for the third-party control accounts are only allowed from
the subledger applications that process financial transactions related to external parties.
3.14.1.9. Share Allocation Formula across Ledger Currencies
You can now generate allocation journals for all the ledgers in a ledger set using a single
mass allocation formula. The mass allocation formula now has the ability to override the
ledger currency entered in the mass allocation formula lines allowing one mass allocation
formula to be used to process each ledger within the ledger set.
This new functionality eliminates the need to create and maintain multiple instances of
the same mass allocation formula for ledgers with different functional currencies.
Release 12.2+
3.14.1.10. Journal Approvals Integration with Oracle Approvals Management and Oracle
Workflow
The Journal Approvals functionality in Oracle General Ledger has been enhanced to
provide integration with Oracle Approvals Management and Oracle Workflow to provide
greater flexibility to define journal approval rules.
New attributes from Oracle General Ledger have been seeded in Oracle Approvals
Management to enable configuration of flexible journal approval rules for enterprises to
address governance, control, and compliance needs.
Oracle Workflow integrates with Oracle Approvals Management and Oracle General
Ledger to route the notifications to the appropriate set of approvers for review, and to
enable action to be taken to approve or reject a journal. Once the approver has responded
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the status is sent from Oracle Workflow to Oracle General Ledger and is reflected in the
approval status of the journal.
The approval process can be defined to run sequentially or in parallel to multiple
approvers, and define if first responder wins, or if all approvers must approve.
Overview
The Oracle General Ledger Command Center helps General Ledger superusers discover
and monitor key financial areas. It highlights financial exceptions across all relevant
processes in the enterprise with data available for analysis.
Operational efficiency and insight are greatly enhanced through key metrics, drillable
graphs, and tag clouds. It means you can identify problem areas and outstanding items
that require intervention quickly. Decision-making is improved through immediately
actionable information and streamlined end-to-end processing of exceptions and
bottlenecks. You can efficiently navigate to the underlying application to take corrective
action as necessary.
The Oracle General Ledger Command Center feature is available at no additional cost to
licensed users of Oracle Financials. It can be applied to Release 12.2.4 and above.
Release 12.2.12
Oracle General Ledger Command Center enables General Ledger superusers to obtain
insight across two available dashboards quickly.
3.15.1.1. Journal Processing Dashboard
The Journal Processing dashboard highlights all the pending journals during journal
import processing from subledgers. You can easily identify and correct the journal error
and run the journal import request.
3.15.1.2. Account Analysis Dashboard
The Account Analysis dashboard offers superior navigation and discovery capabilities
into all unposted and posted journals for the open accounting periods. You can review
Debit/Credit account activities by Ledger, accounting period, source, and balancing
segment. The dashboard facilitates account analysis beyond general ledger balances. You
can drill to journal details and subledger transactions to understand exceptions.
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The Receipts Required feature has been enhanced to provide support for expense types
associated with the Mileage expense category.
3.16.1.3. Archive and Purge of Expense Reports
This new program enables administrators to archive and purge expense reports related
data that is no longer needed.
3.16.1.4. Read-Only Access to Per Diem and Mileage Details in Audit
The Audit Expense Report page has been enhanced to allow auditors to view Per Diem &
Mileage category expense details.
3.16.1.5. AMEX Loader Option to Not Load Payment Transactions
The American Express Transaction Loader and Validation program has been enhanced to
optionally load payment transactions.
Release 12.1.3
3.16.1.6. Expense Receipt Management Enhancements
Oracle Internet Expenses has been enhanced to provide users the ability to define rules to
accept, track and route imaged receipts to the appropriate auditor work queue.
Faxed receipts and/or emailed scanned receipts can now be associated with expense
reports as receipt images.
User defined rules can be setup to enforce receipt submission and reimbursement
thresholds in addition to highlight missing receipts for expense lines.
3.16.1.7. Duplicate Expense Detection
Duplicate Expense Detection Rules are now available to detect duplicate expense claims
aiding customers in decreasing administration costs by ensuring only reimbursement of
valid expense claims.
3.16.1.8. Oracle Fusion Expenses iPhone Application for Oracle Internet Expenses
Oracle Fusion Expenses iPhone application is now enabled for Oracle Internet Expenses
release 12.1.3 and above. The Oracle Fusion Expenses iPhone application empowers you
to quickly capture your expenses as they are incurred. The iPhone application provides
the following capabilities:
• Enter expenses in multiple ways: Create expense lines from receipt images and
calendar entries, create lines with quick entry or manual entry
• Add attendees from calendar events and address book and create new attendees
• Charge to projects and cost centers
• Flag policy violations and receipt requirements
• Submit expense reports
• Sync reference data automatically
• Enter expenses in connected or offline mode
• Approve expense reports.
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3.17. Oracle Mobile Expenses for E-Business Suite
Release 4.0
3.17.1.1. Oracle Fusion Expenses Mobile Application
The latest version 4.0 of Oracle Fusion Expenses iPhone application is now available for
Oracle Internet Expenses release 12.1.3 and above. The Oracle Fusion Expenses iPhone
application empowers you to quickly capture your expenses as they are incurred. The
updates in the new version of the iPhone application include:
• New Look and Feel
• Ability to Logout and Save Password
• Expense Template on Line Item
• Enhanced Expense-Fields Support for Airfare and Meals
• Enhanced Mileage Entry
• Searchable DFF Segment Values.
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intervention. The insight and actions available within the dashboards help to reduce the
cost of collection activities overall.
An organization’s internal accounts receivable and collections personnel insight can also
access the dispute information to monitor dispute activities to minimize revenue leakage.
Release 12.2.9++
The following functionality requires Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework (ECC)
Release 12.2 V4.
3.19.1.5. Export Functionality
You can export results table data to a csv file (across all dashboards).
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3.19.1.6. Improved Dispute Handling
The accounts receivable staff can cancel disputes created by or on behalf of the customer
directly from ECC dashboard and allow the users (internal and external) to see this action
reflected on the overview and dispute dashboards.
Release 12.2.10+
The following functionality requires Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework (ECC)
Release 12.2 V7.
3.19.1.7. Export Dashboard to PDF
You can now export data from the iReceivables dashboards to a PDF, which you can
print or share electronically for team collaboration.
Release 12.2.11+
The following functionality requires Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework (ECC)
Release 12.2 V8.
3.19.1.8. New Layout with Search Input and Filters at Top of Dashboard
At top of each iReceivables dashboard, you can with fewer clicks enter a general search.
In a second field, you can view the resulting filters, and add or remove filters.
The original refinements that used to be shown on the left-hand side of the dashboard are
now hidden by default to allow more data display within each dashboard.
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3.21. Oracle Legal Entity Configurator
Release 12.1.3
3.21.1.1. Enhanced Legal Addresses
In prior releases, when defining the address for a new legal entity, users could only select
from existing locations identified as legal addresses. Users can now select any existing
location as an address for a legal entity.
This feature has also been back-ported to following releases:
Release Patch Number
12.0.6 6116752:R12.XLE.A
12.1.1 6116752:R12.XLE.B
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forgiveness details are visible for each individual loan via the Servicing Center:
Overview: Summary window. During billing, the forgiven amount is displayed and
accounted for as an adjustment on the customer invoice.
Release 12.1.3
3.22.1.4. Multiple Disbursements during Loan Servicing
In prior releases, direct loans could only be adjusted using multiple disbursements with
disbursement amount, percentage and a specific target date freeze before the approval,
activation or funding of the loan. Now, loan managers can perform adjustments to the
loan amount in active and multiple disbursements of the loan after the loan is activated,
funded or in the servicing stage.
Additionally, for Extended Repayment Schedule (ERS) loans, loan managers can now
add and convert additional receivables transactions to existing loans in the servicing
stage. Managers can also modify the outstanding amount of receivables or adjust the
receivables amount based on the payment terms.
Release 12.2.3
3.22.1.5. Support Changes in Repayment Frequency of Principal and Interest
For loans with standard amortization schedules, users now have the ability to change the
loan repayment frequency during loan servicing. Users can switch a single frequency
repayment schedule to a multiple payment frequency schedule by simply defining the
new payment schedule’s Payment Start Date and Payment Frequency.
This feature has also been back-ported to 12.1 via the standalone patches:
7573972:R12.LNS.B and 7573972:R12.LNS.C.
Release 12.2.6
3.22.1.6. Project Account for Direct Loan Disbursement
Oracle Loans now provides the option to use Oracle Project's PTAEO (Project, Task,
Award, Expenditure Type, and Organization) for direct loan disbursements to Payables
Vendors.
3.22.1.7. Floating and Variable Interest Rates by Date
Two additional By Date rate types are now available: Variable by Date and Floating by
Date.
With these new rate types, each installment can have one or more variable or floating
interest rates defined. Interest is calculated based on number of days for each interest rate.
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In prior releases, withholding tax was deducted either during validation or payment of
invoices. Oracle Payables has been enhanced to allow application of withholding taxes
both during invoice validation and payment.
3.23.1.2. Discount Calculation Enhancements
Suppliers offer discounts for early payment. Early payment discounts can be fixed
monetary amounts or calculated on a percentage basis.
In prior releases, discounts could be defined in percentage terms only. Oracle Payables
now allows discounts to be specified in monetary amounts. When a percentage as well as
an amount is available, the higher or lower of the two can be specified for application.
3.23.1.3. Subcontractor Management for Engineering and Construction
Oracle Payables has been enhanced to automatically apply holds on supplier invoices
when the Pay When Paid or the PO Deliverable Control option is enabled on purchase
orders. During invoice validation, such holds are automatically released provided
authorizations have been recorded within Oracle Project Accounting or Oracle
Purchasing.
3.23.1.4. Supplier Dispute Processing
Supplier invoices may be short paid to expedite dispute settlements. The Payables
Invoice Workbench has been enhanced to capture the invoice amount originally claimed
by the supplier and the reason for short payment.
3.23.1.5. Third Party Payments
Suppliers can specify a related trading partner to be paid on their behalf. The payments
made on behalf of suppliers to other trading partners are termed as third-party payments.
Oracle Payables has been enhanced to record third party relationships and to process third
party payments. Withholding and 1099 processing continue to occur for invoicing
suppliers.
3.23.1.6. Business Intelligence Publisher Support for Selected Payables Reports
The following Oracle Payables reports have been re-written utilizing the Business
Intelligence Publisher (BIP) tool. BIP based reports offer greater flexibility to end users
in changing report layouts and formats:
• Withholding Tax by Invoice Report
• Bills Payable Maturity Date Report
• Discounts Available Report
• Payment Audit by Voucher Number
• Prepayments Status Report.
Release 12.1.2
3.23.1.7. Replace Supplier Bank Accounts on Invoices
In today’s business environment, it is a common practice to change bank accounts. If
suppliers change their bank accounts, Oracle Payables can now automatically update all
unpaid and partially paid invoices with the new bank account information. When users
end date an existing supplier bank account and provide a new active bank account, Oracle
Payables will automatically update the remit-to bank account information on unpaid and
partially paid invoices. This streamlines transaction processing and prevents the need to
update each invoice manually.
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This feature has been back-ported to 12.1.1 via the standalone patches:
6867725:R12.AP.B and 6615694:R12.IBY.B.
3.23.1.8. Change Taxes from Inclusive to Exclusive Online
The tax regulations in many countries require that certain types of taxes on invoices be
applied as inclusive or exclusive to the price of the good or service. This is common in
countries that report VAT, such as in the United Kingdom, where the VAT tax can be
treated as inclusive or exclusive depending on the type or price of the good or service.
Oracle Payables provides the flexibility to override the inclusive or exclusive nature of
taxes that default from the eBTax setup. While entering an invoice, users can change
taxes from inclusive to exclusive or vice versa to match the tax shown on the physical
invoice. This ensures more accurate invoice entry and tax reporting.
Release 12.2.2
3.23.1.9. Workflow Transfer of Approval
Workflow Transfer of Approval is now available in Oracle Payables. Users can transfer
approval ownership of an invoice effectively changing the approval hierarchy to another
user verses delegation where the users give authority to respond to notifications while
still retaining ownership.
This update has also been back-ported to the following release:
Release Patch Number
12.0 14743008:R12.AP.A
12.1 16845104:R12.AP.B
12.2 16845104:R12.AP.C
Release 12.2.4
3.23.1.10. Parallel Approval of Supplier Invoices
Significantly improve invoice approval processing efficiency with Parallel Approval of
Supplier Invoices. Parallel approval for invoice header level approvals, enables faster
approval cycles by allowing all identified approvers to receive approval notifications
simultaneously upon invoice submission.
Parallel approval reduces overall approval processing time by enabling all approvers to
have imme0diate visibility to action invoices requiring approval.
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Release 12.2.8
Oracle Payables Command Center enables accounts payable personnel to quickly identify
and obtain insight through 3 dashboards as outlined below.
3.24.1.1. Supplier Balance Dashboard
The Supplier Balance dashboard gives an overview across suppliers and organizations of
supplier open balances and aging of past due invoices. Accounts payable personnel can
not only manage working capital effectively, but also get quick updates and perform
corrective actions by reviewing 7 days invoice history.
3.24.1.2. Holds Dashboard
The Holds dashboard includes invoice aging, invoices on hold, top hold reasons and
discounts available for invoices on hold. Accounts payable personnel are able to resolve
the invoice holds quickly and efficiently through seamless integration with Oracle
Payables Invoice Workbench.
3.24.1.3. Discounts Opportunity Dashboard
The Discounts Opportunity dashboard displays information such as available discounts in
the next 7 days and graphs on weekly discount opportunities by date. These graphs can be
drilled into quickly to identify invoices that need to be paid to realize these discounts and
manage working capital effectively.
Release 12.2.8+
The following functionality requires Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework
Release 12.2 V2.
3.24.1.4. Grouping of Attributes in Attribute Groups
Attribute groups are logical groupings of attributes for display purpose. Grouping helps
productive navigation through details within each of the dashboards in the Oracle Assets
Command Center. Attribute groups improve the search capabilities by enabling you to
refine and narrow your search on data by attributes arranged into logical groups such as
invoice, supplier, date, and amount.
Release 12.2.9++
The following functionality requires Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework (ECC)
Release 12.2 V4.
3.24.1.5. Export Functionality
You can export results table data to a csv file (across all dashboards).
3.24.1.6. Descriptive Flexfield Support
Display of Descriptive Flexfield (DFF) attributes in ECC dashboards, which allow search
and filter by DFF attributes,
3.24.1.7. Period Close Dashboard
The Period Close dashboard provides real-time visibility into the accounting process in
helping you identify any potential bottlenecks early in the closing cycle by focusing on
the unprocessed accounting events, accounting errors, and untransferred journals to
General Ledger. The dashboard helps the accounts receivable manager to reduce period
close time, accelerate delivery of financial results to internal management, and identify
improvements to be made over the next period.
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Release 12.2.10+
The following functionality requires Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework (ECC)
Release 12.2 V7.
3.24.1.8. Export Dashboard to PDF
You can now export data from the Payables dashboards to a PDF, which you can print or
share electronically for team collaboration.
Release 12.2.11+
The following functionality requires Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework (ECC)
Release 12.2 V8.
3.24.1.9. New Layout with Search Input and Filters at Top of Dashboard
At top of each Payables dashboard, you can with fewer clicks enter a general search. In a
second field, you can view the resulting filters, and add or remove filters.
The original refinements that used to be shown on the left-hand side of each dashboard
are now hidden by default to allow more data display within each dashboard.
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3.25.1.3. Amex CAPN Enhancement
Amex CAPN is a new initiative to increase security for the American Express Credit card
transactions. Now when customers pay using an Amex credit card, two new data
elements are return with the authorization response; Transaction ID and POS. Oracle
Payments is now able to accept and store the new data elements so that the additional
data can be included in the settlement of the payment to Amex.
3.25.1.4. FDC Servlet Load Balancing
FDC North is a processor model payment system and is integrated with iPayments for
credit / purchase card processing on the funds capture side. Under the 11i/FP.G and R12
versions, the FDC North servlet could not be load balanced due to the use of a text file
(BatchGenMap.txt) for processing purposes and the inability for a text file to be shared
concurrently by two processes due to the risk of overwriting data. In this release, the data
required to process FDC batch queries can now be derived from the Payments data model
eliminating the use of the BatchGenMap text file. As a result, load balancing of the FDC
North servlet is now possible.
Release 12.0.6
3.25.1.5. Multiple Divisions per Settlement Batch Enhancement
Before Release 12.0.6, for large customers with multiple internal divisions, the number of
files generated during the settlement batch process in Oracle Payments may well
exceeded the daily limit set my third-party payment processors. In this version, the
payment system accounts with the same set of transmission configurations are grouped
into a single settlement batch reducing the number of settlement batch files generated and
risk of exceeding the daily limit.
3.25.1.6. Paymentech Certification
Oracle Payments is now certified with Paymentech for payment transmissions.
3.25.1.7. Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Credit Transfer Initiation Messages
SEPA Credit Transfer is a payment instrument for the execution of credit transfers in
Euros between customer accounts located in SEPA. This feature creates SEPA Credit
Transfer initiation messages for payments per ISO and SEPA implementation guidelines.
Release 12.1.1
3.25.1.8. Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Support
The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) guidelines require that credit transfers be
executed using standard SEPA Credit Transfer initiation messages. These are XML
messages generated as per the ISO 20022 framework and conforming to SEPA credit
transfer schemes negotiated with banks.
Oracle Payments has been enhanced to support SEPA Credit Transfers. Messages are
initiated and formatted utilizing the existing disbursement framework.
This feature has also been back-ported to 12.0.4 via the standalone patch:
7552541.R12:IBY.A.
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3.25.1.9. Paymentech Integration Certification
Paymentech is a leading Back End Processor (BEP) in providing financial settlement
services. Oracle Payments is certified with Paymentech for seamless transmission of
credit card, debit card and direct debit transactions.
This feature has also been back-ported to 12.0.4 via the standalone patch:
6975269:R12.IBY.A.
3.25.1.10. Positive Pay File with Additional Parameters
The Positive Pay File report details payments made to specific trading partners. A new
Positive Pay File with Additional Parameters report has been introduced to include
previous payments and, optionally, voided check information.
This feature has also been back-ported to 12.0.0 via the standalone patch:
6939650:R12.IBY.A.
Release 12.1.2
3.25.1.11. PA-DSS for Credit Card Processing
To ensure all payment type applications that interact with payment cards meet consistent
security standards, the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council
encourages and, in some cases, mandates that merchants use only PA-DSS (Payment
Application Data Security Standards) certified payment application software.
Certification applies to software applications that store, process, or transmit payment
cardholder data as part of an authorization or settlement process. This certification
reassures users that Oracle Payments is properly handling and securing sensitive payment
card information. Certification includes proper adherence with industry accepted data
storage guidelines, encryption algorithms, secured coding practices, and secured
transmission standards.
Oracle Payments customers benefit from the ongoing enhancements made to conform to
PA-DSS requirements. These PA-DSS enhancements are also available as standalone
patches to customers on Release 12.0 and 12.1.1.
Release 12.2
3.25.1.12. Payment Acknowledgement Import
Oracle Payments now has the ability to import payment acknowledgement reports
containing payment status for bank received payment files.
Users can:
• Map bank acknowledgment codes with the system defined acknowledgment
codes
• Import acknowledgment data
• Import multiple acknowledgments per payment
• Review acknowledgment details including bank reported errors and status.
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Release 12.2.4
3.25.1.13. ISO 20022 Direct Debit
Customers can now generate direct debit initiation message using Common Global
Implementation (CGI) format and process the status report received from bank based on
ISO 20022 framework.
3.25.1.14. ISO 20022 Direct Debit - Multiple Mandates per Debtor Account
You can now attach multiple mandates to a customer bank account and assign priority to
each mandate for the purpose of defaulting on the transactions.
3.25.1.15. SEPA Credit Transfer - Exception Handling
Oracle Payments provides a generic feature to process the funds disbursement
acknowledgement file received from bank. This feature can be used by customers to
manage the SEPA credit transfer exceptions.
3.25.1.16. International Bank Account Number (IBAN) Support
Customer and supplier bank accounts can now be created or searched based on
International Bank Account Number (IBAN).
Release 12.0.4
3.26.1.2. Extension of Oracle Financials Functionality
Oracle Public Sector Financials International now provides for following features:
• Multi-Org Access Control
• Centralized and Configurable Accounting
• Integrated Budgetary Control
• TCA Integration.
The following 11i Features have been replaced by standard Oracle functionality:
• Accounts Receivable Combined Basis Accounting
• Cash and Accrual Support
• Enhanced Funds Checker
• Gross Based VAT
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• Multi-Period Posting
• Single Third Party
• Dunning.
3.26.1.3. Inflation Account for Assets
Modified Historic Accounting (MHCA) is obsolete in R12 and has been replaced by
Inflation Accounting for Assets (IAC).
Release 12.0.6
3.26.1.4. Contract Commitments Integration with Self Service Purchasing
Contract Commitment with Dual Budgetary Control is now integrated with Self Service
Purchasing. Users can create purchase orders, perform funds checking and funds reserve
using the self-service version of Purchasing when Contract Commitments with the Dual
Budgetary Control feature is enabled.
Release 12.2
3.26.1.5. Construction Industry Scheme (CIS): Exclusion of Out of Scope Contract
Invoices in Monthly Returns Reporting
The Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) Monthly Returns Reporting now excludes out
of scope contract invoices. If the withholding tax field on all the distribution of a CIS
Supplier invoice is null, then the invoice is deemed out of scope and is now excluded
from the monthly returns reporting. This feature has also been back-ported to 12.0.x via
the standalone patch: 9000000:R12.IGI.B.
Release 12.2.8
3.26.1.6. Construction Industry Scheme (CIS): Monthly Returns Resubmission
Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) users can now resubmit a revised version of the
monthly return through the Government Gateway, where it will override the existing file
in the HMRC CIS system.
• You can now resubmit the CIS monthly returns any number of times for a period.
• You can now download the CIS data from the previous submission, correct it,
and upload it back to CIS using the Web ADI import/upload options.
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3.27. Oracle Receivables
Release 12.1.1
3.27.1.1. Cash Application Work Queue
Receivables departments need to efficiently allocate and monitor the workload of receipt
application personnel. Unapplied customer receipts can now be automatically assigned to
specific cash application specialists for further processing. This assignment is done
based on user defined rules by a new concurrent program: Assign Cash Application Work
Items.
Using the new Cash Application Work Queue workbench, specialists can efficiently
manage their workload, review unapplied receipts and take further actions on unapplied
receipts. The Cash Workload Review Report is now available to review and monitor the
current workload of assignees.
3.27.1.2. Enhanced Line Level Cash Application
Business operating in certain industries need to track balances and apply customer
payments at the invoice line level.
Oracle Receivables now maintains line level balances for all transactions originating
from sources enabled for line level operations. The Auto Lockbox matching routine has
been enhanced with an open call-out to invoke custom transaction line selection logic.
3.27.1.3. Enhanced Performance for High Volume Receivables Processing
Companies operating in industries such as telecommunications, retail, insurance and
utilities process large volume of invoices and receipts on a daily basis. Oracle
Receivables has significantly enhanced the performance and scalability of the following
key batch programs by implementing parallel processing logic and fine-tuning database
indexes:
• AutoInvoice Master Program
• Automatic Clearing for Receipts
• Automatic Remittances Master Program
• Lockbox Execution Program
3.27.1.4. Golden Tax Adaptor Enhancements for Mainland China
All businesses operating in mainland China are required to use a government certified tax
application for VAT calculation, VAT invoice generation, and statutory tax reporting.
This system is referred to as Golden Tax. Golden Tax Adaptor provides a seamless
integration between Oracle Receivables and the Golden Tax system.
Golden Tax Adaptor now supports three additional VAT invoice types: special VAT
invoices, common VAT invoices, and special VAT invoices for waste and outdated
materials.
Credit memo processing through Golden Tax Adaptor has been enhanced with the
following new features:
• Processing of on-account credit memos and credit memos referring to multiple
invoices
• China Tax Office notification number support for credit memos on Special VAT
Invoices
• Validation rules to prevent export of credit memos with duplicate or incorrectly
formatted notification numbers
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3.27.1.5. Business Intelligence Publisher Support for Selected Receivables Reports
The following Oracle Receivable reports have been re-written utilizing the Business
Intelligence Publisher (BIP) tool. BIP based reports offer greater flexibility to end users
in changing report layouts and formats.
• AR Reconciliation Report
• Customer Open Balance Letter
• Incomplete Invoices Report
• Invoice Exception Report
• Receipt Analysis - Days Late.
Release 12.1.2
3.27.1.6. Default Customer Bank Account Information on Unidentified Receipts
Auto Lockbox now derives customer bank account information based on the Magnetic
Ink Character Recognition (MICR) number supplied in the lockbox data file. This
information is defaulted on unidentified receipts and can be manually associated with a
customer record for matching receipts in subsequent runs of Auto Lockbox
This feature has also been back-ported to 12.1.1 via standalone patch:
8422361:R12.AR.B
3.27.1.7. Enhanced Aging Report to Support Multi-Fund Accounts Receivables
Public sector companies and federal agencies often need to record receivables against
multiple operating funds on an invoice. Operating funds are represented as balancing
segments. In prior releases, Oracle Receivables aging reports could be used to monitor
fund level balances only when an invoice impacted a single balancing segment.
Oracle Receivables introduces a new Aging 7 Bucket by Account -- Multi-Fund
Accounts Receivables Report. This report lists receivables balances regardless of the
number of funds associated with any invoice.
All other Oracle Receivables aging reports remain unchanged.
Release 12.2.2
3.27.1.8. Review and Manage Accounting Exceptions during Period Close
Companies are constantly striving towards reducing the period close cycle time to
finalize the financial statements as early as possible for management and statutory
reporting. One of the period close tasks that can take considerable amount of time is
resolving the accounting exceptions.
Receivables now provides the new Sweep Invalid Distributions report that shows the
details of the accounting exceptions that are holding the period close for review and
action. If the amount involved is not material from the reporting perspective and
resolving the accounting exceptions is likely to delay the period close, then the
accounting date of the accounting distributions that have exceptions should be swept to
the next open period. Pass manual journal entry in the General Ledger in the current
period for the receivable accounting distributions that are swept to the next period.
The new Receivables report is not only useful in creating the manual journal entry in the
General Ledger but will also act as a supporting document for audit. In the next open
period reverse the manual journal entry and resolve the accounting exceptions.
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3.27.1.9. Automate Auto Lockbox Processing
Companies using the Lockbox service receive the data file containing receipt information
from the banks at frequent intervals for each bank account that receives payments. These
files are processed by the Auto Lockbox programs to import, validate, create and apply
receipts. Until now the lockbox processing programs had to be launched manually from
the UI for each data file. Receivables now allow these programs to be submitted as
standard concurrent requests using the standard Submit Request form.
To further improve productivity, a custom program can be created that scans for the
incoming files at regular intervals. When a file is received it can automatically submit the
Auto Lockbox programs to process the file.
3.27.1.10. Assign Customers to Unidentified Receipts using API
Receivables departments need to efficiently manage the cash application process to
reduce the manual efforts and at the same time improve the customer satisfaction. Timely
and accurate application of the unidentified customer cash receipts to the invoices paid is
important to provide a true picture of the customer account and the transaction status and
helps in improving customer satisfaction. An API is now available that can be used to
assign customers to the unidentified receipts.
3.27.1.11. Golden Tax Adaptor Enhancement for Mainland China
The Golden Tax Adaptor provides the following new features:
• Integration with Aisino Golden Tax system V7.20 on which one Golden Tax
transactions can map multiple VAT invoices
• VAT invoice types can be defaulted by customer taxpayer types, and user can
change the default VAT invoice type on receivable transaction level
• Allow to split transaction lines while unit price exceeds maximum VAT invoice
amount limit.
Release 12.2.4
3.27.1.12. Mask Tax Payer Identification and Tax Registration Number
Customers now have the ability to mask both the Taxpayer ID and Tax Registration
Number from the Customer Name list of values through a new profile option.
Access to this information can now be restricted or viewable to selected user
responsibilities through the Mask Tax Payer ID and Tax Registration Number Profile
Option. Users visibility can be restricted by selecting one of the three available profile
options: “No Mask”, “Mask with First Four Digits Visible”, or “Mask with Last Four
Digits Visible”.
3.27.1.13. Support Querying and Consolidating for Golden Tax Transactions by Sale Order
Number
The Golden Tax Adaptor now allows users the option to query and consolidate Golden
Tax transactions by sales order number within the Golden Tax Workbench simplifying
the process of finding and consolidating Golden Tax Transactions.
Release 12.2.5
3.27.1.14. Split Golden Tax Transaction Line by Unit Price
Golden Tax Adaptor now allows invoice lines to be split by unit price or quantity when
the unit price exceeds the maximum amount allowed for the VAT invoice.
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3.27.1.15. Apply Receipts Automatically based on Match Score and Knapsack Method
The Automatic Cash Application improves accuracy and on-time application of cash
receipts with the introduction of two new methods for automatically applying cash
receipts.
The first method generates match scores using the Levenshtein distance algorithm and
automatically applies the receipt based on a score threshold. The second method applies
receipts by knap sacking the receipt amount and the open transactions of the customer.
Both methods provide suggested matches when a receipt cannot be applied automatically.
Release 12.2.6
3.27.1.16. Multiple Tax Rates in One VAT Invoice
Golden Tax Adaptor now allows multiple tax rates in one VAT invoice. VAT invoices
with multiple tax rates no longer need to be split by tax rate.
3.27.1.17. Support for Tax-Inclusive and Tax-Exclusive Business Cases
Golden Tax Adaptor now supports both tax-inclusive and tax-exclusive business cases.
The Invoice Export flat file has been modified to support the Aisino Golden Tax System
calculation of tax and invoice amounts for tax-inclusive and tax-exclusive business cases.
3.27.1.18. Manage Revenue to Address ASC 606 / IFRS 15 Accounting Principles
The ASC 606 and IFRS 15 accounting standards for Revenue from Contracts with
Customers apply to any enterprise in most countries worldwide.
The 5 steps to apply ASC 606 / IFRS 15 core principle to recognize revenue to depict the
transfer of goods and services to a customer are:
1.Identifying and creating customer contract(s).
2.Identifying and creating separate performance obligations.
3.Determining the transaction price of the contract(s).
4.Allocating the transaction price of the contract to distinct performance obligations
based on relative method of allocation.
5.Recognizing the revenue over time or at a point in time when performance obligations
are satisfied, and the customer obtains control.
Oracle Revenue Management Cloud performs the standard’s 5 steps by automatically
identifying, valuing and recording contracts and performance obligations, and
recognizing revenue as each performance obligation is satisfied. This ensures that sales
transactions are consistently recorded in accordance with your policies reflecting the
accounting standard.
Leverage Oracle Revenue Management Cloud capabilities with the out-of-the-box
integration with Oracle E-Business. With this integration, manage your revenue for the
sales orders, service contracts, projects and accounts receivable invoices in Oracle
Revenue Management and continue managing your billing in E-Business Suite Accounts
Receivable.
The integration between Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Revenue Management
Cloud is available to both E-Business Suite 12.1.3 and 12.2 customers if they subscribe to
Oracle Revenue Management Cloud.
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Release 12.2.7
3.27.1.19. Generate UBL 2.1 Electronic Invoice Document
Generate Universal Business Language (UBL) 2.1 standard compliant electronic invoices
and transmit the invoice documents electronically to the end customers with the standard
Document Transfer Scheduling program. Use the seeded map in the XML Gateway
application or if required, customize the map for your organization or country specific
requirements.
Release 12.2.11
3.27.1.20. Thousand Separator on Profile Amounts at Customer Account and Customer
Site Level
Profile amounts at the customer account and customer site level can range from couple of
thousands to millions in any given currency. Currency formatting with thousand
separator can be applied to Profile Amounts at the customer account and customer site
level through user preference settings, which make profile amounts easier to read and
reduces risk of user error.
Thousand separators are applied to the following attributes in the Profile Amounts tab at
the customer account and customer site level:
• Min Receipt Amount
• Credit Limit
• Order Credit Limit
• Min Statement Amount
• Min Dunning Amount
• Min Dunning Invoice Amount
The thousand and decimal separator characters follow the user preference setting for
Number Format in combination with relevant Currency format (for instance USD
currency format 10,000.00 differs from DKK currency format 10.000,00).
While modifying data in the profile amount attributes in the Customer Account UI, you
can either enter it in non-formatted (only numbers) value or if formatted value is used, it
should be compliant with the formatting requirements for that currency.
Release 12.2.12
3.27.1.21. Additional Search Parameters for Account Relationship UI
In addition to the relationship status, you can now search for related accounts using the
operating unit, account number, customer, relationship type, reciprocal flag, bill-to flag,
and ship-to flag parameters.
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accounts receivable and collections personnel to discover important information quickly
such as past due balances and top 10 customers with highest outstanding balances.
The Oracle Receivables Command Center enables accounts receivable and collections
personnel to quickly identify and obtain insight through four insightful dashboards as
outlined below.
3.28.1.1. Outstanding Receivables Dashboard
The Outstanding Receivables dashboard offers insight into open receivables transactions
across customers and organizations, allowing you to obtain a better understanding of the
health of open receivables, review specific transactions and potentially challenging
customers that require attention and take necessary actions to minimize customer account
delinquency.
Release 12.2.8+
The following functionality requires Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework
Release 12.2 V2.
3.28.1.5. Grouping of Attributes in Attribute Groups
Attribute groups are logical groupings of attributes for display purpose. Grouping helps
productive navigation through details within each of the dashboards in the Oracle
Receivables Command Center. Attribute groups improve the search capabilities by
enabling you to refine and narrow your search on data by attributes arranged into logical
groups such as customer, transaction, receipt batch, and remittance batch.
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Release 12.2.9++
The following functionality requires Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework (ECC)
Release 12.2 V4.
3.28.1.6. Export Functionality
You can export results table data to a csv file (across all dashboards).
3.28.1.7. Descriptive Flexfield Support
Display of Descriptive Flexfield (DFF) attributes in ECC dashboards, which allow search
and filter by DFF attributes,
3.28.1.8. Period Close Dashboard
The Period Close dashboard provides real-time visibility into the accounting process in
helping you identify any potential bottlenecks early in the closing cycle by focusing on
the unprocessed accounting events, accounting errors, and untransferred journals to
General Ledger. The dashboard helps the accounts receivable manager to reduce period
close time, accelerate delivery of financial results to internal management, and identify
improvements to be made over the next period.
Release 12.2.10+
The following functionality requires Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework (ECC)
Release 12.2 V7.
3.28.1.9. Export Dashboard to PDF
You can now export data from the Receivables dashboards to a PDF, which you can print
or share electronically for team collaboration.
Release 12.2.11+
The following functionality requires Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework (ECC)
Release 12.2 V8.
3.28.1.1. New Layout with Search Input and Filters at Top of Dashboard
At top of each Receivables dashboard, you can with fewer clicks enter a general search.
In a second field, you can view the resulting filters, and add or remove filters.
The original refinements that used to be shown on the left-hand side of the dashboard are
now hidden by default to allow more data display within each dashboard.
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Release 12.1.1
3.29.1.2. Historical Data Initialization for New Reporting Currencies and Secondary
Ledgers
When setting up new secondary ledgers or reporting currencies with an existing primary
ledger for new local or corporate reporting requirements, all historical transaction
accounting amounts and balances have to be initialized in these new ledgers/currencies to
ensure proper reconciliation with their primary ledger counterparts. Oracle Subledger
Accounting now provides a new concurrent program: SLA Secondary/ALC Ledger
Historic Update for this particular need. This program retroactively posts historical
transaction accounting data from the existing primary ledger to the newly created
secondary or reporting currency ledgers. Once this program is executed, reports and
inquiries will correctly display secondary ledger or reporting currency amounts.
Release 12.1.2
3.29.1.3. Accounting Rules Detail Report and Enhanced Subledger Accounting Online
Inquiry
Oracle Subledger Accounting introduces a new Subledger Accounting Rules Detail
Listing Report to provide detailed information about accounting rules defined for a
subledger accounting method. The report can be submitted from the individual subledger
applications or from Oracle General Ledger. In addition, the report can be submitted for
custom applications registered within Oracle Financial Accounting Hub.
Users can now use the new report to easily review the following setup details:
• Subledger Accounting Method
• Journal Line Definition
• Journal Line Type
• Account Derivation Rule
• Journal Header Description
• Journal Line Description
The online Subledger Journal Entry page has also been enhanced with two new sections
to display the journal line definition and the journal line type used for generating an
accounting entry.
3.29.1.4. Accounting Data On-Demand Upgrade by Subledger
During the Release 12 upgrade process, customers can choose the time span for
converting historical accounting data to the new Subledger Accounting tables. There is
also a separate program that allows customers to extend the data conversion to older
accounting periods after the upgrade. This program runs for all subledgers at the same
time.
In this release, Oracle Subledger Accounting has enhanced this process by introducing a
new concurrent program Upgrade Historical Subledger Transaction Accounting that
allows the historical accounting data conversion to be done independently for each
subledger.
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Release 12.1.3
3.29.1.5. New Control Accounts Qualifier
“Restrict Manual Journals” has been added as a new qualifier on the natural account
segment to provide users the ability to specify the control accounts that do not require
third party detail for posting.
Release 12.1.3
3.30.1.2. Reconcile Treasury Transactions of all Deal Types
Oracle Treasury now allows the use of Retail Term Money Market deal transactions
within the Oracle Cash Management Bank Statement reconciliation. With this
enhancement, users can view and use all treasury deal type transactions when reconciling
bank statements within Oracle Cash Management providing a single point for
reconciliation.
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Release 12.1.3
3.31.1.2. Updates to Year-End Close Processing
The Federal Year End Close process has been modified to add a Closing Method to
accommodate configuration of Pre-Closing as well as Closing accounting entries.
Closing Method and Closing Period have been added as parameters to the Year End
closing process.
3.31.1.3. Extract File Changes for Central Contractor Registration (CCR)
CCR enhancements include:
• Placing specific named holds (instead of supplier site holds) on invoices and
scheduled payments when the supplier’s registration status becomes inactive, and
automatically releasing the hold when the registration becomes active
• Masking the CCR account user identifier and password information on
concurrent request parameters and log file output
• Providing validation on the Payables Assignment page to prevent the association
of a CCR vendor to an existing supplier when their TINS do not match
• Updating unpaid invoices with the latest bank account information from
CCR when the bank information has changed for a CCR registration.
Release 12.2
3.31.1.4. Common Government-wide Accounting Classification (CGAC) Configuration
Federal Financials has been modified to accommodate attributes for the Common
Government Accounting Classification (CGAC) structure. Configuration windows
have been added or modified to accommodate:
• The CGAC component based Treasury Account Symbol (TAS) for both
internal agency accounts as well as Trading Partner accounts
• TAS, Fund, and General Ledger CGAC related attributes
• The 8-character Business Event Type Code (BETC) required for all Fund
Balance with Treasury (FBWT) activity being reported to Treasury such as
payments, collections, borrowings, etc.
Also, a new automated process has been added for establishing new single and
multi-year TASs from existing single-year and multi-year TASs that are expiring.
The process will establish related funds, budget distribution, and TAS/BETC
relationships for the new TASs.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support Knowledge
Document
12.0.x 9307787:R12.FV.A 1277072.1
12.1.x 9307787:R12.FV.B 1277072.1
Release 12.2.3
3.31.1.5. Government-wide Treasury Account Symbol Adjusted Trial Balance System
(GTAS) Processing
Federal Financials has been modified to support interface with the U.S. Treasury’s
Government-wide Treasury Account Symbol Adjusted Trial Balance System
(GTAS). Modifications to support this interface include new/modified processes,
configuration and budget entry windows and reports. GTAS replaces functionality
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previously provided by FACTS I and II. FACTS I and II processes, configuration and
reports have been retired.
GTAS concurrent processes have been added to support the generation of the GTAS
Interface file. Various configuration windows have been added or modified to
accommodate configuration of GTAS attributes included but not limited to the GTAS
Attributes window, the Treasury Account Symbol window, and the Fund Attributes
window. Federal budget entry windows have been modified to accommodate capture of
the Trading Partner Main Account required for the GTAS interface file. The GTAS Trail
Balance and GTAS Transaction Register report have been added.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number
11.5.10 17158017
12.0.x 17276857:R12.FV.A
12.1.x 17276857:R12.FV.B
Release 12.2.4
3.31.1.7. Capture of BETC, Trading Partner TAS, and Trading Partner BETC Attributes
The Business Event Type Code (BETC), Trading Partner Treasury Account Symbol
(TAS), and Trading Partner BETC attributes have been added as attributes to the
following transactions at the distribution level:
• Purchase Orders
• Payable Invoices
• Project Agreements
• Receivables Transactions
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
11.5.10 16695227 1603099.1
12.0.x 14774455:R12.FV.A 1602631.1
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12.1.x 14774455:R12.FV.B 1602631.1
12.2.3 14774455:R12.FV.C 1602631.1
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File and the SAM Sensitive File. The Search SAM Vendors UI was modified to support
the display of additional and modified data elements between the CCR Complete File and
the SAM Sensitive File. The UI was also modified to remove data elements that are not
mandatory financial system elements.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
11.5.10 17641759 1642296.1
12.0.x 17747493:R12.FV.A 1642272.1
12.1.x 17747493:R12.FV.B 1642272.1
12.2.3 17747493:R12.FV.C 1642272.1
Release 12.2.5
3.31.1.12. U.S. Federal: Classification Transactions and Accountability (CTA) Interface
Federal Financials has been enhanced with the following features in support of the
Classification Transactions and Accountability (CTA) Interface:
• Global Descriptive Flexfields (GDFs) were added on Journal Lines to
accommodate capture of BETC, Trading Partner TAS, and Trading Partner
BETC needed for CTA reclassification transactions
• The CTA Process, which creates a file containing the reclassification transactions
in the CTA Bulk File Component TAS Format. In addition to the file, the
process generates the CTA Exception and CTA Detail Transaction Reports.
Patch Number My Oracle Support
Release
Knowledge Document
12.1.3 20359347:R12.FV.B 1943006.1
12.2.3 18653107:R12.FV.C 1906855.1
12.2.4 18653107:R12.FV.C 1906855.1
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Release 12.2.7
3.31.1.14. U.S. Federal: Capture of Award Financial Attributes for Data Act Reporting
The Purchase Order, Release, General Ledger Journal forms and the Buyer Work Center
page as well as the Purchase Order and Journal import processes were modified to
support the capture of the following award financial attributes required for Data Act
reporting:
• Data Act Reporting Indicator
• Procurement Instrument Identifier (PIID)
• Parent Award
• Federal Award Identification Number (FAIN)
• Unique Record Identifier (URI)
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.1.x 25471308:R12.FV.B 2177731.1
12.2.x 25471308:R12.FV.C 2177731.1
Release 12.2.11
3.31.1.15. U.S. Federal: DATA Act Information Model Scheme (DAIMS) v2.0 Changes
The Federal File Creation process has been updated to accommodate DATA Act
Information Model Scheme (DAIMS) v2.0 changes. Changes include the ability to
submit the process monthly or quarterly, populate the Defense Emergency Fund Code
DEFC code on DATA Act Files B and C, and include activity for each accounting event
in DATA Act File C.
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.1.x 31214968:R12.FV.B 2686490.1
12.2.x 31214968:R12.FV.C 2686490.1
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Release 12.2.12
3.31.1.17. U.S. Federal: Accommodate Budget Object Class and Disaster Emergency Fund
Code for GTAS and Data Act Reporting Changes
This change is for the addition of Budget Object Class to GTAS reporting and the update
of Budget Object Class and Disaster Emergency Fund Code for Data Act Reporting.
The Federal Attributes form was modified as follows:
• Changed Program Cost Indicator field name to Disaster Emergency Fund Code
• Added a new field, Budget Object Class, as a checkbox.
The Reporting Codes form was modified as follows:
• The Reporting Code field has been increased to 3 characters for the Cost Type,
Disaster Emergency Fund Code.
• The Reporting Code field has been increased to 4 characters for the Cost Type,
Object Class.
The following reports have been modified to accommodate the Budget Object Class and
Disaster Emergency Code field changes:
• GTAS Trial Balance Report
• GTAS Transaction Register Report
• GTAS Bulk Interface Report
Release 12.0.3
3.32.1.1. China National Accounting Office (CNAO) Support
The China Accounting Software Data Interface Standard (CNAO) is now available to
provide financial data export and cash flow statement functionality to comply with
Chinese legal requirements.
3.32.1.2. Japan: Depreciable Assets Tax Report
The Depreciable Assets Tax report is now available to address Japanese regional taxation
requirements. A user interface has been added to capture the additional Company and
Tax Authority level information required for the report.
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Release 12.0.4
3.32.1.3. United States: Form 1099 Legislative Updates
This release of Oracle Payables incorporates all 2006 IRS mandated 1099 updates as
follows:
• For all forms: Payment Year. Field Positions 2 – 5 have been incremented to
update the four-digit reporting year (2005-2006) unless reporting prior year data
• Deletion of two fields: Replacement Alpha Character, position 21-22 and
Electronic File name for a Replacement File, position 396-410
• Expansion of the Contact Email Address to 50 positions and the deletion of the
Vendor Contact Email address. As a result, several other fields have new
positions: Contact Email Address, position 359 – 408 and Cartridge Tape File
Indicator, positions 409 – 410.
Release 12.1.1
3.32.1.4. Brazil: Fiscal SPED – Support for Fiscal Book Generation and Electronic Invoice
Integration
Support for Fiscal Book Generation
The Brazilian Fiscal SPED requires organizations to submit a set of legal reports in
electronic format to tax authorities. Specific additional information is required to be
provided in these reports. Oracle Financials for Latin America provides new and
enhanced functionality to capture the additional required information.
The following new windows have been introduced to support SPED:
• Electronic Invoice Attributes
• Electronic Invoice Status History
The following existing windows have been enhanced:
• Tax Codes and Rates
• Supplier Sites
• Customer Sites
• Transaction Sources
• Order Management Deliveries
• Order Management Carriers
• Transaction Types
• Inventory Master Items
• Item Templates
3.32.1.5. Support for Electronic Invoice Integration
Per Brazilian tax law, account receivable invoices can only be billed to a customer after
tax authority approval.
In this release, Oracle Financials for Latin America provides support for electronic
invoice integration for tax authority approval. The tax authority approval status is used to
control downstream business process such as invoice printing, collection, etc. for the
receivables invoice. In order to prevent billing customers with an invalid document
status, only receivable invoices with a status of Finalized or Contingency are processed.
Invoices with a status of Sent, Error, Cancelled, Rejected and Obsolete are placed on hold
until the electronic invoice status is updated to Finalized or Contingency.
This update has also been back-ported to the following release:
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Release Patch Number My Oracle Support Knowledge
Document
12.0 7000001:R12.JL.A 753705.1 – Electronic Invoice
Standards
876892.1 – Electronic Invoice
Integration Support
3.32.1.6. Japan: Asset Depreciation Enhancements for Japan Tax Reform Act of 2007
In order to stimulate and promote economic growth, The Ministry of Finance for Japan
has announced new tax reforms. The reforms introduced new rules for calculating
depreciation on fixed assets effective April 1, 2007.
Oracle Assets provides the following new features to support the new tax reforms:
• New depreciation methods and rates for depreciable assets acquired on or after
April 1, 2007
• New rates are added to the Straight Line Method
• 250% Declining Balance Method
• Extension of Depreciation feature for calculation of extended depreciation for
eligible assets (depreciable asset acquired on or before March 31st, 2007 and
depreciated up to earlier 95% limit)
• Enhanced reporting for compliance
• Enhanced Mass Changes feature by adding Salvage value and Final Depreciable
limit parameters
Release 12.1.2
3.32.1.8. Argentina: Turnover Tax Withholding/Perception Regimes
The Tax Authority of Buenos Aires province has determined through regulations DN
70/07 and DN 74/07, that tax rates for its Turnover Withholding and Turnover
Perception regimes would be defined per individual contributors (i.e. taxpayer id),
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therefore modifying existing withholding and perception tax rate determination, which
was a general rate applicable for all taxpayers.
Each Perception agent (i.e. seller) and Withholding agent (i.e. buyer) will be required to
download from the tax authority’s website a monthly flat file with applicable tax rate
information for each contributor (taxpayer id).
In this release, Oracle Financials for Latin America provides new and enhanced
functionality to enable its customers to upload the government’s monthly data file and
update the corresponding tax assignments per taxpayer id (i.e. Withholding rates for
suppliers in Oracle Payables and Perception rates for customers in Oracle Receivables)
and ultimately calculate proper withholding and perception taxes on Payments and
Receivables transactions, thus complying with the current legal regulations.
The following functionality is provided:
• Infrastructure and Guidelines to Setup and Upload Monthly Data File
• Program to Validate Data prior to Data Upload
• Program to Update Monthly Turnover Perception Tax Assignments per Taxpayer
id (Receivables)
• Program to Update Monthly Turnover Withholding Assignments per Taxpayer id
(Payables)
• Program to Update Withholding Rates for Unpaid Invoices (Payables)
• Report to List Uploaded Data for Verification Purposes
The following windows have been enhanced:
• Withholding Taxes
• Supplier Withholding Applicability
The following concurrent program has been introduced:
• Argentine Turnover Tax Data Upload Verification Report
The following reports can be generated based on parameters entered in the above
concurrent program:
• Argentine Turnover Temporary Data Upload Verification Report
• Argentine Turnover Data Upload Validation Report
• Argentine Turnover Final Data Upload Verification Report
In this release, Oracle Financials for Latin America provides new and enhanced
functionality to capture the required information, extract and format electronic
accounting books.
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Oracle supports monthly generation of the following bookkeeping types:
• Bookkeeping Type G
• Bookkeeping Type R
• Bookkeeping Type A
• Bookkeeping Type B
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information in simplified Chinese for use in the Golden Tax (VAT) invoices, and the
ability to support sales discounts on Golden Tax (VAT) invoices.
1. Merge multiple Golden Tax (VAT) invoices
Users can consolidate multiple invoices for the same customer into a single VAT
invoice within limits as defined in the System Options.
2. Capturing bank and customer information in simplified Chinese
Users can use an Alternate Name to enter, capture and print the customer and
bank information in Chinese on issued VAT invoices.
3. Sales discount
Users can export sales discount lines from the EBS Golden Tax Adaptor into the
Golden Tax system. Users can import credit memo data with merged discount
amounts back into Golden Tax Adaptor.
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• The Asset Integrator (Oracle Web ADI) has been modified to enable the
addition of existing assets in Extended Depreciation.
• The Extended Adjustments program has been modified to support
migrated depreciating assets in Extended Depreciation.
2. Enhanced What-If Depreciation Analysis for Japan Tax Reform
The What-If Depreciation program has been enhanced to use 2007 Japan Tax
Reform methods:
• New JP 250 DB methods introduced with the Japan Tax Reform.
• The new JP STL EXTD method for assets currently depreciating under
Extended Depreciation.
3. Depreciable Assets Tax Report for Japan
Previously, users of the Japan Depreciable Assets Tax Report could only register
and provide descriptive information for a single company. The report has now
been enhanced to handle multiple companies.
The Japan Depreciable Assets Tax Report contains the following modifications:
• Users can specify information for multiple companies linked to specified
asset book(s).
• Additional reference information is enterable in the report.
• The report layout format conforms to the legal standard.
This update has also been back-ported to 12.1.1 via the standalone patch:
8706842:R12.FA.B.
3.32.1.15. Spain: VAT Legislation: Modelo 347 Domestic Transactions Turnover Report
Changes
New guidelines include changes to the types of companies that are required to submit
Modelo 347. These guidelines were issued on December 30th, 2008 and are applicable
as of January 1st, 2009: Order EHA/3787/2008, of 29 of December, (BOE 30-diciembre-
2008). A series of updates and additional fields have been applied to the layout of
Modelo 347 report in accordance to the legislative requirements.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
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11.5.10 7564728 1288794.1
12.0 8635531:R12.JE.A 1288812.1
12.1.1/12.1.2 8635531:R12.JE.B 1288812.1
3.32.1.16. Spain: VAT Legislation: Modelo 415 Canary Island Turnover Report Changes
Companies operating in the Canary Islands and subject to the Canary Islands Tax Regime
are required to submit an IGIC Modelo 415 file. A series of updates and additional fields
have been applied to the layout of Modelo 415 in accordance of the new legislative
requirements.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
11.5.10 8294328 1288794.1
12.0 8635531:R12.JE.A 1288812.1
12.1.1/12.1.2 8635531:R12.JE.B 1288812.1
Revaluation and impairment functionality in Oracle Assets now addresses the fixed asset
revaluation requirements as per SORP.
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guidance. Additionally, the FACTS II Edit Check Detail Report has been modified to
include the status and supporting detail for these edits.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
11.5.10 9351322 875303.1
12.0.x 9351569.FV.A 875303.1
12.1.x 9351569.FV.B
This update has also been back-ported to 12.1.1 via the standalone patch:
8706842:R12.FA.B.
Release 12.1.3
3.32.1.23. Argentina: Support for Argentina Simplified Regime (Monotributo)
The Argentine Fiscal Authority (Resolution 2616), introduced a new Withholding
Regime for Income Tax and VAT application to Simplified Regime Contributors (a.k.a.
Monotributista). Effective January 1, 2010, the new regime is effective on any payment
made to a Monotributista that has reached an annual threshold-billing amount as pre-
defined by the government.
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The extended withholding solution for Argentine has been enhanced to address these
changes. Suppliers can now be defined using withholding types and rates applicable to
simplified regimes.
With these changes, users now can:
•Identify suppliers who are Monotributistas
•Verify supplier’s billing information against fiscal authority thresholds
•Analyze information through the Monotributistas Billing vs. Threshold
Verification Report
• Automatically enable Simplified Regime applicability to Monotributistas that
meet the threshold.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
11.5.10 8971151
12.0.5 9112951:R12.JL.A 987131.1
12.1.1/12.1.2 9112951:R12.JL.B 987131.1
3.32.1.25. Brazil: Support for Brazilian Electronic Collection Document Process (DDA)
Effective October 2009, Oracle Financials for Latin America introduced two new
attributes in the Collection Document Window and in the Import Collection Documents
program to support the Brazilian Authorized Direct Debit (DDA) system:
• Collection Document Barcode: The Collection Document Barcode is required
for the Electronic File Transfer. This mandatory record speeds up the data entry
of manually collected documents and is now a required field in the Standard
Collection Document.
• Electronic Collection Document Flag: The Electronic Format (Y/N) flag
identifies if the respective collection document is electronic (Y) or standard (N).
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
11.5.10 8802352 1071872.1
12.0.5 9319746:R12.JL.A 987749.1
12.1.1/12.1.2 9319746:R12.JL.B 987749.1
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3.32.1.26. China: Support for Version 2 of the China Accounting Software Data Interface
Standard
The China National Audit Office (CNAO) has defined a new version of their accounting
auditing filing standard, known as the China Accounting Software Data Interface
Standard. The new standard requires a number of XML-based reports, using data
primarily from the General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Assets, and Payroll
modules. It is currently required for state-owned enterprises and public sector
organizations.
3.32.1.27. India: Enhanced Value Added Tax (VAT) Functionality to Support Flexible
Recovery Schedule for India
Oracle Financials for India now provides the flexibility to use VAT recovery schedules
and percentages to derive the tax installments and dates to claim or recover VAT on
capital goods.
3.32.1.28. India: Value Added Tax (VAT) Statutory Accounting and Reporting for Non-
Shippable Items
Users can now have the ability to generate Value Added Tax Invoice Numbers, perform
VAT Repository updates, and account for VAT taxes for customer billable non-shippable
items on sales orders.
3.32.1.29. Israel: Israel VAT Report Enhancement
Effective January 2010, new legislation was introduced affecting companies issuing
periodic VAT declarations in Israel. The legislative changes include enhanced tax
reporting boxes for declared input and output taxes
• New electronic flat file format declaration related to 835
• Aggregated reporting of taxable sales transactions below the official published
limits
• Monthly percentage or amounts limits for tax reclaimed on Petty Cash
transactions
• Mandatory declaration of export trade transactions (Rshimon Export).
The EMEA VAT Reporting Setup has been updated to capture monthly aggregation and
declaration limits for Israel.
The following Israeli reports have been enhanced to incorporate the legislative changes:
• Israeli VAT AR Detail Report
• Israeli VAT AP Detail Report
• Israeli VAT Summary Declaration to Tax Authorities
• Israeli VAT File Generation Related to 835.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.0.6 9241039:R12.JE.A 981126.1
12.1.1/12.1.2 9241039:R12.JE.B 981126.1
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In summary, the amendments are as follows:
• Row 60 includes new fields for Tax Year, Supplier Type and Explanation for the
Tax File in IRS
• Row 70 includes new fields for Foreign Suppliers Total Payments Paid by Bank
and Foreign Suppliers Total Withhold Amounts Paid by Bank. Positions 53 to
101 are filled out with spaces.
• Row 80, a new row has been added. This row has 216 positions and is composed
of 12 lines, one line per each month of the year.
The following data is also generated as part of row 80:
• IRS Deduction File Number, Reporting Type Code, Tax Year, Period, Number of
Reported Suppliers, Total Payments, Total Withholding Tax, 155 spaces and the
constant ‘80’.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.0.5 9253606:R12.JE.A 1288098.1
12.1.1/12.1.2 9253606:R12.JE.B 1288098.1
3.32.1.31. U.S. Federal: Extract File Changes for Central Contractor Registration (CCR)
CCR processing has been enhanced to process the BPN extract v4.09 files. The extracts
contain additional NAICS information, as well as the Excluded Parties List System
(EPLS) status. The CCRXML request version number has been updated to 2.10. The
CCR Vendors pages have also been updated to display the additional information.
3.32.1.32. U.S. Federal: Regulatory Updates to Statement of Budgetary Resources
The setup and concurrent process for the following Federal Financial Statements have
been modified to align with OMB Circular A-136 Revised (dated June 10, 2009) as well
as USSGL Fiscal Year 2010 crosswalk attributes:
• Statement of Budgetary Resources
• Statement of Changes in Net Position.
3.32.1.33. U.S. Federal: Regulatory Updates to SF-133 Report
The setup and concurrent process for the SF 133, Report on Budget Execution, has been
modified to align with OMB Circular A-136 Revised (dated June 10, 2009) as well as
USSGL Fiscal Year 2010 crosswalk attributes.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
11.5.10 9307464 979828.1
12.0 9162915:R12.FV.A 979828.1
12.1.1/12.1.2 9162915:R12.FV.B 979828.1
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where the supplier is located but will be taxed where the customer is situated. The
changes also introduced new reporting requirements.
Oracle Financials has been enhanced to address the new VAT changes by providing the
following features:
• Identify the intra EU service transaction lines and display them on the European
Sales Listing report
• Print standard legal messages on sales invoices.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.0 9337544:R12.ZX.A 974979.1
9123675:R12.BPA.A 1107453.1
12.1 9337544:R12.ZX.B 974979.1
9123675:R12.BPA.B 1107453.1
Release 12.2
3.32.1.35. Brazil: Federal SPED Regulation – Accounting SPED Updates
The following updates are available:
• Identify accounts within the account hierarchy to exclude from register I050
(Chart of Accounts)
• Exclude ‘STAT’ currency code journals from reporting
• Support 19 positions for numeric and amount values
• Provide Create or Change Date identifier as required under register I100 (Cost
Center)
• Automatic defaulting of Taxpayer ID (i.e. CNPJ/CPF) when defining Third Party
Participants
• Generate digital transcript signature (register I151) for register I150 (periodic
balances) for the Bookkeeping Type B.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.0 11653651.R12.JL.A 1299664.1
12.1.x 11653651.R12.JL.B 1299664.1
3.32.1.36. Brazil: Fiscal SPED – Electronic Invoice Layout Update (Manual 4.01)
The following attributes are generated and/or captured in order for Fiscal Partners to
communicate Electronic Invoices to Fiscal Authorities:
• Numeric Access Key Code generated by the Electronic Invoice Attributes
window
• Wagon and Ferry Identification captured at the Shipping Transaction and
Electronic Invoice Attributes window
• Industry Specific Attributes on Receivables Transaction Workbench and open
interface
• Additional Attributes for Multiple Towing Vehicles on Shipping Transactions,
Receivables Transaction Workbench and open interface.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
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Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
11.5.10 10215640
12.0 10184720:R12.JL.A 1185914.1
12.1.x 10184720.R12.JL.B 1185914.1
3.32.1.37. Brazil: Fiscal SPED – Support for PIS/COFINS (EFD-Digital Fiscal Bookkeeping)
To address legal resolution 1052/2010 for PIS/PASEP and COFINS taxes, effective April
2011, the following existing windows have been enhanced to capture additional
information:
• Sales Order Lines
• Electronic Invoice Attributes
• Tax Code and Rates
• Customer Account Sites
• Inventory Master Items
• Item Templates
Additionally, the Auto Invoice program has been enhanced to import the ‘Service
Execution Date’ from the Receivables Interface table.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number
11.5.10 10628769
12.0 11825724:R12.JL.A
12.1.x 11825724.R12.JL.B
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Release Patch Number
12.0 11058720:R12.JE.A
12.1.x 11058720.R12.JE.B
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IFRS-based Code from the UK GAAP-based SORP resulted in changes to the accounting
entries related to revaluations and impairments for property, plant and equipment assets.
The following revaluation and impairment functionality has been provided in Oracle
Assets to address the fixed asset revaluation and impairment requirements for tangible
property, plant and equipment assets, as per the ‘Code’:
• Revaluation Loss (new feature)
• Reversal of Revaluation Loss (new feature)
• Consumption of Economic Benefit (CEB) Impairment (changed feature).
3.32.1.43. U.S. Federal: New FACTS II Edits
Federal Agencies’ Centralized Trail-Balance System (FACTS II) edits have been
added/removed to comply with Treasury changes:
• Edit 14: Retirement of Reclassification Edit 14
• Edit 15: The ending balance recorded in USSGL account 4157 cannot exceed
the ending balance in USSGL account 4397
• Edit 16: The ending balance recorded in USSGL account 4158 cannot exceed
the ending balance in USSGL account 4398
• Edit 17: USSGL Accounts 4134/4144 only apply to TAFSs where USSGL
accounts 4871 and/or 4971 are reported
• Non-Federal Exception Edit: A Non-Federal Exception Allowed checkbox has
been added to the Define Treasury Account Symbols window. USSGL Accounts
4221/ 4251/4230/4233/4212 can only have balances for Treasury Account
Symbols with the Non-Federal Exception Allowed checkbox checked.
Additionally, the FACTS II Edit Check Detail Report has been modified to include the
status and supporting detail for the above edits.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
11.5.10 11799569 1299711.1
12.0 11683152:R12.FV.A 1299711.1
12.1.1/12.1.2 11683152.R12.FV.B 1299711.1
Release 12.2.2
3.32.1.44. Belgium: Belgian VAT Annual Return Report Legal Changes 2012
Effective February 2012, new legislation was introduced affecting companies issuing the
VAT Annual Return in Belgium.
The Belgian VAT Annual Return contains information about all goods and services
supplied to Belgian customers during the tax year. The return uses data generated
through the Belgian VAT Annual Declaration process to produce the VAT Annual
Return in XLM format. Each VAT eligible company in Belgium is required to submit an
Annual VAT Return in electronic format (XML) to the Belgian VAT Authorities via the
INTERVAT portal.
The legal updates provided for the Belgian VAT Annual Return Report ensures
compliance with the new XML schema version 0_7.xds – Interval v8.0.
The changes are as follows:
• Group format of XML output
• Target namespace
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• Specific XML tag names
• ‘ROOT’ section
• ‘Identification Declarant’ section
• Addition of Phone Number and Email Address tags
• Optional elements not generated:
• File Attachment
• Comment
• Replaced Client Listing element of Client Listing
• Section not required by Oracle users:
• Representative section
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support Knowledge
Document
12.0.6 14695260:R12.JE.A 1498446.1
12.1.1 14695260:R12.JE.B 1498446.1
12.2.1 14695260:R12.JE.C 1498446.1
3.32.1.45. China: China Accounting Software Data Interface Banking Standard
Ministry of Finance, China National Audit Office and Standardization Administration of
China jointly issued GB/T 19586-2004 Information Technology – Data Interface of
Accounting Software standard for State-owned Enterprise, Public Sectors, Ministries and
Their Administration Units and State-owned Commercial Bank.
The standard requires those entities could export their financial statements and
accounting data periodically by specific XML format.
China Accounting Software Data Interface Banking feature complies with the standard of
commercial bank portion to export the required financial statements and accounting
information from the General Ledger. The solution includes two components which are
shared information data export and general ledger data export.
3.32.1.46. India: NSDL eTDS and eTCS Returns
Oracle Financials for India now supports filing of eTDS and eTCS quarterly statutory
returns using the file validation utility 3.6 released by National Securities Depositories
Limited which are mandatory from October 2012.
3.32.1.47. India: TCS Product Impact Support
Oracle Financials for India now supports Tax Collected at Source (TCS) sale of certain
minerals, cash sale of bullion and jewelry that are released as part of the budget changes
announced by the Federal Government of India in March 2012.
3.32.1.48. India: Service Tax Reverse Charge Mechanism
Oracle Financials for India now supports, Reverse Charge on service tax where the
service tax is to be paid by the service receiver and not by the service provider, along
with partial payment of service tax service provider and service receiver.
3.32.1.49. Russia: Enable Revaluation at Year End
In December 2010, a new Russian legal requirement was announced mandating that in
2011 and later, asset revaluations are to be performed at year end and reflected in the
financial results of the year being closed. In compliance with this new requirement, the
Oracle Assets revaluation functionality has been extended to allow users to include the
current period depreciation in the accumulated depreciation being revalued.
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3.32.1.50. United Kingdom: Modulus Check Validations for Bank Accounts in the United
Kingdom
The existing account number validations for United Kingdom domestic bank accounts only
check the length of the account number. These validations are performed during the entry
and update of bank accounts.
With this release the account number validations for United Kingdom are enhanced to
include a modulus check validation along with the length checks.
To enable the modulus checks, a new concurrent program – "Load UK Domestic Account
Validations Data" – has been provided to load the modulus validation data from text files
that are provided and periodically updated by VocaLink Ltd. This includes:
• Modulus Weights Table Data
• Sorting Code Substitution Data.
This update has also been back-ported to 12.1.x via the standalone patch:
16511168:R12.CE.B.
Release 12.2.3
3.32.1.51. Brazil: Resolution 13 – Import Content Attributes
Oracle Financials for Brazil has been changed to capture additional information required
as part of the Federal Senate Resolution 13/2012, and subsequent Agreement 38/2013.
The solution provided will let users:
• Define new Item Origin codes
• Assign the new Item Origin Codes to inventory items and item templates
• Manually enter and/or import Item Origin Codes at Order Entry lines, Memo
Lines and Transaction lines
• Associate the newly introduced Import Content related attributes to inventory
items and item templates
• Enter/Update the Import Content related attributes at Transaction Line level
(defaulted from inventory item).
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
11.5.10 16665395 1571019.1
12.0.6 16665388:R12.JL.A 1571019.1
12.1.x 16665388:R12.JL.B 1571019.1
Release 12.2.5
3.32.1.52. Brazil: Brazilian Accounting SPED – Layout 2
The Brazilian Accounting SPED Data Extract Program has been modified to incorporate
the new EDC requirements as published in the May2013 ECD Layout Guidance Manual
via Executive Declaratory Act Cofis nº 33/2013.
The Brazilian Accounting SPED Data Extract Program has been changed to generate the
new fields for the following impacted registers:
• Register 0000 - Flat File Opening and Company Identification
• Register I030 - Opening Term
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• Register J100 – Balance Sheet
• Register J930 - Bookkeeping Signatories identification.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.0.x 18955744:R12.JL.A 1903868.1
12.1.x 18955744:R12.JL.B 1903868.1
12.2.x 18955744:R12.JL.C 1903868.1
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3.32.1.55. Mexico: Mexican Electronic Accounting - Chart of Accounts and Trial Balance -
XML Files
According to the Appendix 24 of the Miscellaneous Fiscal Resolution for 2014
(Resolución Miscelánea Fiscal para 2014), accounting via electronic media is required to
contain the following:
• Chart of Accounts: Companies are to report transactions using the Company's
chart of accounts and the corresponding agglutination code, according to the
catalog published by the SAT
• Summary Trial Balance including beginning balances, movements of the period
and ending balances of each and every one of the accounts of assets, liabilities,
capital, results (revenues, costs, expenses) and off-balance sheet accounts
• Journals information including transaction details
• Auxiliary report of accounts
The feature enables customers to:
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December 2014 and paid in January 2015 will only appear in the Deferred VAT Amount
field when submitting the 2015 declaration.
The layout for the 2014 reporting has been modified as per legal requirements and
following reports are available in support of the changes:
• Spanish Operations with Third Parties Magnetic Format (Modelo 347)
• Spanish Verification and Audit Report (Modelo 347).
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.1.x 20577688:R12.JE.B 1984333.1
12.2.x 20577688:R12.JE.C 1984333.1
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12.2.x 21225382:R12.JL.C 2026758.1
• SEFAZ defined values for the IPI code according to the legal framework,
including the IPI exemption code related to the Olympics 2016. Also, it was set a
new ICMS Exemption Reason related to the Olympics 2016
• New ICMS tax calculation rules
• New field: ICMS calculation basis of the recipient State
• New field: ICMS Internal rate of the recipient State
• New field: ICMS Interstate rate (The ship from and ship to locations are in
different states)
• New field: Provisional percentage to be applied on the value of the ICMS for
sharing between the two states
• New field: Sharing ICMS value due to the recipient State
• New field: Sharing ICMS value due to the sender State
• New field: new field to inform the Identification Code of Tax Replacement
(CEST).
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3.32.1.61. Israel: Withholding Tax Reporting Changes 2015
As per legislative amendments of the Income Tax Ordinance the Withholding Tax File –
856 has been updated for 2015 reporting, effective end of March 2016.
Row 80 of the “Israeli Withholding Tax File to Tax Authority” and the Israeli
Withholding Tax File to Tax Authorities Report has been modified to reflect the new
reporting requirements.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.1.x 13599326:R12.JE.B 1438397.1
12.2.x 13599326:R12.JE.C 1438397.1
3.32.1.62. Italy: Italian VAT Plafond - Letter of Intent Process Change 2015
From February 2015, the ‘Letter of Intent’ process, which is a subset of the VAT Plafond
process, was modified as follows:
• Per supplier, the exporter is to create an electronic file according to the technical
specifications defined by the Italian Revenue Agency
• The file is to be transmitted electronically to the Italian Revenue Agency
• Per electronic file received, the Italian Revenue Agency sends by email a receipt
assigning the pertinent transmission protocol number per ‘Letter of Intent’
• Exporter is required to send a receipt and paper ‘Letter of Intent’ to the supplier.
The paper ‘Letter of Intent’ is to be printed according to the pre-defined format
defined by the Italian Revenue Agency
The following modifications have been made to address the new changes:
• Allows identification of the VAT Plafond Type (i.e. Fixed or Mobile)
• Ability to enter newly required data elements for a given Letter of Intent
• Ability to amend Letters of Intent
• Generation of Letter of Intent in Electronic format as per legal specifications
• Generation of Letter of Intent in pre-defined paper format.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.1.x 22689814:R12.JE.B 2110555.1
12.2.x 22689814:R12.JE.C 2110555.1
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• Italian Polyvalent Declaration – Auditing Report
• Italian Polyvalent Declaration – Electronic File.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.1.x 22866435:R12.JE.B 1613490.1
12.2.x 22866435:R12.JE.C 1613490.1
3.32.1.64. Japan: Japan My Number Act - Japanese Depreciable Assets Tax Reports, 2016
In May 2013, the Japanese government passed the "My Number Act". The act requires
Japanese Individuals and Companies be assigned unique numbers to track income, social
security, taxes and anti-disaster measures. A new field, "Personal Number or Corporate
Number" has been added to the Company Information for the Japanese Depreciable
Assets Tax Reports Setup of Oracle Assets to capture this unique number. The Oracle
Business Intelligence Publisher report template for the Japanese Depreciable Assets Tax
Summary Reports has been modified to display the unique number.
3.32.1.65. Spain: Spanish Modelo 190 - Withholding Tax File Changes 2015
Effective January 1, 2016 and retroactive to January 1, 2015, changes to the Spanish
Modelo 190 Withholding reporting content and format commenced.
The Spanish Modelo 190 Withholding File which is supplied by all companies
withholding amounts in Spain from payments to employees, professionals and
autonomous workers was modified to reflect the new requirements.
The following reports and programs have been modified in support of the new formatting
and data requirements:
• Spanish Operations Spanish Withholding Tax Data Extract (190)
• Spanish Withholding Tax Magnetic Format (Modelo 190).
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.1.x 23062304:R12.JE.B 2124534.1
12.2.x 23062304:R12.JE.C 2124534.1
Release 12.2.7
3.32.1.66. Poland: Unified Audit File - Jedolity Plik Kontrolny (JPK)
Effective July 1, 2016, Organizations doing business in Poland under tax audit are
required to produce and submit audit documentation such as Purchasing, Sales, Invoices,
Taxes, Accounting, Bank movements and Inventory transactions in the Jednolity Plik
Kontrolny or JPK electronic format.
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• Bank statements
Release 12.2.8
3.32.1.67. Brazil: Brazilian Accounting SPED Layout 5
On December 12, 2016, the Federal Revenue Agency of Brazil “RFB” released a new
Accounting SPED layout 5, via the Orientation Guide of the Digital Accounting
Bookkeeping – ECD, according to the Executive Declaratory Act COFIS n. 93/2016.
The Brazilian Accounting SPED Data Extract Program has been updated to generate the
new and modified Bookkeeping Types and Registers, in accordance with the new
guidelines as follows:
• The field “Accounting SPED Layout” filled with the constant value 5.00
• The register J930 – Bookkeeping Signatories Identification and ECD
Replacement Verification Term was modified to support one or more signatories
and indicate the legal representative
• New field “functional currency identification”, defined as N (No)
The following modifications have been made in compliance with the requirements as
defined in the NF-e Technical Note 2016.002 v1:
• Inclusion of a new value “5” in the existing field indPres (Buyer Presence
Indicator). The new value “5” represents the face-to-face operation outside of the
establishment, used in the case of street vending
• Two new codes are available in the Application Object Library Lookup, ICMS-
FP (ICMS Fund of Poverty Tax) and ICMS-ST-FP (ICMS-ST Fund of Poverty
Tax)
• The new layout separates the values of regular ICMS tax amount and ICMS tax
amount intended to the Fund of Poverty. It also occurs to the ICMS-ST tax
amount and ICMS-ST tax amount intended to Fund of Poverty
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• The existing field “ICMS Amount to State of Destination” is now intended to
report only the ICMS tax amount due to the State of Destination. The ICMS tax
amount to Fund of Poverty is no longer added to the value in this field.
• Define User configurable Tax regimes: Enable users to define the tax regimes,
Tax settlement authority, type of tax regime and rules related to tax rounding
which can be overwritten at micro level
• Define User configurable tax types: Enable users to define tax types under a
given tax regime, in place of hard coded tax types in the earlier releases,
associate legal tax types for reporting purposes, define the taxable event for a tax
type, identify whether a tax type is recoverable or non-recoverable and other
attributes which determines the system behavior for a given tax type and
associated tax accounts based on the 1st party tax jurisdiction either at operating
unit level or at inventory organization level.
• Define Taxes with tax rates based on effective rates and its status: Define taxes
under a given tax type, tax rates and effective dates, and tax status with provision
to end date tax rates.
• Define Tax registrations for 1st party and 3rd parties: Enables users to define the
tax registration attributes for the organization and for their customers and
suppliers in a centralized place instead of capturing such information in different
forms like additional organization information, additional supplier information,
additional customer information etc. in the earlier release.
• Tax rules definition and support for location-based taxes derivation, for enabling
compliance to GST laws. This feature enables users to configure tax defaulting
rules for defaulting taxes to transactions.
• Provision to recalculate taxes at the taxable event based on effective tax rates
instead of copying taxes estimated in the parent document like Purchase order,
sales order etc.
• Define Tax invoice document sequencing based on GST registration, location
and other business parameters
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3.32.1.71. India: Configurable Settlement Process
The new tax settlement functionality enables users to process tax settlements based on the
tax registration jurisdiction where settlement can be initiated for multiple
organizations/locations sharing the same tax registration. Provisions are built to
configure netting rules for different tax types to determine the offset of tax liability for a
given tax type with input tax credit accrued for the same tax type as well as other tax
types as permissible by law.
The settlement solution calculates tax liability for each tax type based on outbound
transactions, which can be offset with input tax credit accrued based on pre-configured
netting setup based on the credit ledger and remaining liability to be settled from the
advance tax paid through cash ledger.
The settlement functionality generates financial accounting entries for utilization of input
tax credit for offsetting the outbound tax liability and for utilizing the tax paid in advance
for settling the remaining liability.
3.32.1.72. India: Delivery Challan
Delivery Challan is a Serial Number which will be generated instead of the generating the
tax Invoice number for the following documents:
1. Return to Vendor transaction.
2. Intrastate stock transfers between warehouses.
(i.e. ISO / Interorg transfer between two inventory organizations sharing the
same GST Registration Number).
3. Outside processing transactions.
Delivery challan is configured using Document Sequencing setup with Delivery challan
checkbox checked.
Delivery Challan details will be shown in the GST document number and GST document
date fields of India tax details user interface of the corresponding transactions mentioned
above.
3.32.1.73. India: E-way Bill
Three Fields E-way Bill Number, E-way Bill Date, E-way Bill Acceptance checkbox has
been provided in the India tax details user interface for you to capture the details being
generated on the GST E-way bill portal.
These fields are enabled on Purchase Order Receipt and Payables India tax details user
interface.
For more information about features to support Indian GST, refer to My Oracle Support
knowledge center by searching for ‘'GST Information Center'.
3.32.1.74. Italy: Invoice Electronic Listing
The Invoice Electronic Listing feature enables user to comply with the October 2016
decree issued by the Italian Government, mandating the mandatory electronic
transmission for Payables and Receivables invoices. The Invoice Electronic Listing
feature enables you to produce an electronic file compliant with the technical
specification defined by the Italian Revenue Agency.
The solution provided in this release is comprised of the following reports and concurrent
programs:
• Invoice Electronic Listing for Italy - Concurrent program to create an electronic
file of Payables and Receivables accounted invoices.
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• Invoice Electronic Listing File for Italy– Child program initiated by the Invoice
Electronic Listing for Italy to generate Legal electronic file (in the XML format)
• Invoice Electronic Listing Transmission Confirmation for Italy– Concurrent
program to record the File Transmission Identification returned by the Italian
Revenue Agency for each transmission.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle
Support Knowledge
Document
12.1.x 26421309:R12.JE.B 2302148.1
12.2.x 26421309:R12.JE.C 2302148.1
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Accounting. The new payment fiscal documents are part of the electronic invoices
version 3.3 definitions – there is a specific definition for payments received.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.1.x 26918855:R12.JL.B 2279738.1
12.2.x 26918855:R12.JL.C 2279738.1
3.32.1.76. Poland: Unified Audit File - Jedolity Plik Kontrolny (JPK) - 2018 Updates
Sales and Purchase VAT register files for Poland have been modified according to the
new schema that is applicable to 2018 transaction reporting.
Release Patch Number
12.1.x 27336076:R12.JE.B
12.2.x 27336076:R12.JE.C
Release 12.2.9
3.32.1.78. Brazil: Brazilian Accounting SPED Layout 6
Brazilian SPED Accounting had a few recent changes. In December 2017, the Federal
Revenue Agency of Brazil published the version 5.0.0, layout 6 of the Accounting SPED
program. A new orientation guide was released in April 2018 through the Executive
Declaratory Act COFIS n. 27/2018 which is what will be addressed with Release 12.2.9.
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The solution provided in this release is for the following registers:
• Issued Invoices Register
• Received Invoices Register
• Selected Intra-Community Transactions Register
• Cash Collections Register
• Investment Goods Register
Release 12.2.10
3.32.1.80. Polish JPK VAT Registers File changes
Since Release 12.2.6 Oracle Financials already provided enablement for Polish JPK VAT
Register File, Polish JPK VAT Invoices File, Polish JPK Accounting File and Polish JPK
Bank Statements File.
On October 23, 2019, the Polish Ministry of Finance published an updated version of the
JPK Electronic Audit File, specifically the VAT Register block known as JPK_VAT
(formerly called JPK_VDEK). The update extends the functionality of the file, by
including VAT returns data, becoming the single Polish VAT Returns reporting method.
The new structure is mandatory, with the same monthly submission frequency, starting
April 1, 2020 for large companies and July 1, 2020 for all other companies.
After April 1, 2020, large companies cannot submit the former VAT returns as they will
have been obsoleted by the new structure. Therefore, the March VAT return submitted on
April 25, 2020 must be electronically transmitted with the new JPK_VAT structure. The
same logic applies for all other companies in July 2020.
Release 12.2.11
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Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.1.x 30562078:R12.JE.B 2637084.1
12.2.x 30562078:R12.JE.C 2637084.1
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A number of tax reports provided for Spain have been updated to allow reference to the
Tax Lookup ‘JEES_EURO_COUNTRY_CODES’ and exclude reporting transactions
with ‘GB’ country code whilst including those with ‘XI’ (Northern Ireland) country code.
The reports affected are as follows:
• Online VAT Data Extraction Program for Spain
• Annual Online CAT Data Extraction Program for Spain
• Investment Goods Data Extraction Program for Spain
• EMEA VAT: Spanish Modelo Extract
• Spanish Annual Modelo Extract Magnetic Format Report
• Spanish Periodic Modelo Report
• Spanish B2G Electronic Invoices XML File Output
3.32.1.85. United Kingdom: Tax Registration Number validation for Northern Ireland
The validation of UK VAT registration number has been updated to allow the use of
prefix ‘XI’ for Northern Ireland along with ‘GB’.
On 27-Nov-2020, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) updated the policy
paper on VAT on the sale of goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which
defined what to do if trading under the Northern Ireland Protocol after 31-Dec-2020.
• No new UK VAT registration numbers required for NI businesses.
• For Intra EU transactions under the NI protocol, the 'XI' prefix must replace 'GB'
in front of the VAT number when communicating with an EU customer or
supplier.
UK VAT registration number details:
• No. of digits: 5 / 9 / 12 / 14 / 15
• Format: Two character Country code (GB/XI) + 3/7/10/12/13 digit numeric
• Check digits: Yes
Here’s how the GB/XI VAT is validated:
• 11, or 12 Characters:
• 14, or 15 Characters:
Example:
• GB1234567823
• XI001123456782
• GB0011234567823
• Invalid GB/XI VAT: AC123554567 (invalid country code)
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This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.1.x 32233329:R12.ZX.B 2639210.1
2739511.1
12.2.x 32233329:R12.ZX.C 2639210.1
2739511.1
Release 12.2.12
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4. New and Changed Features in Real Estate Management
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4.1.1.7. Breakpoint Flexibility
Complete flexibility in setting up line items and breakpoint definitions has been
introduced. With this feature, users can:
• Set up complex agreements with changes to breakpoints, rates, breakpoint types,
line items, etc., occurring on any date, any number of times over the span of the
lease.
• Enter line item and breakpoint details with any start and end date, not restricted
to sales year start and end dates.
4.1.1.8. Updating Breakpoints
Users can now change breakpoint definitions at any time, regardless of whether variable
rent has been calculated and approved. To respond to amendments or to correct data,
users can change most parts of a variable rent agreement. If the changes affect rent that
has been approved, the application will create adjusting terms.
4.1.1.9. Natural Breakpoint Enhancements
When the terms that form the basis for a natural breakpoint change, whether because of a
rent increase or because a user added or ended a term, the system now automatically
recalculates the natural breakpoints. The user can recalculate the variable rent; and if the
changes affect rent that has been approved, the application will create adjusting terms.
Users now select terms to form the basis for natural breakpoints using a new attribute on
the term, allowing complete control over which terms are to be included.
Users can now have rent increases, selectively, included in the natural breakpoint basis as
the increases are assessed.
4.1.1.10. Early Termination of Agreement or Lease
The user can now end variable rent agreements as of any date, either directly or by
terminating a lease. The system will perform any recalculations necessary if variable rent
has already been paid for affected periods and will create adjusting and/or reversing
terms.
4.1.1.11. Extension of Variable Rent Agreements
The user can now extend the length of variable rent agreements, or have the system
extend the agreement automatically when a lease is extended. The user also chooses
whether to have the system automatically extend the latest breakpoint definitions when
the agreement is extended or to manually enter the breakpoint definition detail for the
extension period.
4.1.1.12. New Calculation Methods
Two new calculation methods have been introduced for Variable Rent.
• Year-to-Date. The system determines overage by comparing the cumulative
breakpoint with the cumulative sales (or other volume).
• True Up. The system calculates variable rent periodically through the year with a
non-cumulative method and then does a True Up calculation at the end of the
year (or other appropriate period).
4.1.1.13. New Partial Year Calculation Methods
Several new methods (in addition to the existing Standard Proration) have been
introduced to calculate variable rent in partial years at the beginning or end of an
agreement.
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• First Year. A partial first year variable rent is calculated based on the first 12
months of sales, effectively using some sales from the second year as proxy for
the missing months in the first year. The resulting rent is prorated based on the
actual length of the first partial year.
• Last Year. This is the equivalent of the First Year method, applied to partial last
years.
• First Year / Last Year. If this Partial Year Method is selected, both the First Year
and Last Year methods will be applied.
• Combined Year with Breakpoint Proration. The first partial year is combined
with the second year. For cumulative and year-to-date methods, breakpoints and
volumes continue to accumulate for more than 12 months. The breakpoints are
effectively ‘annualized’ because the period of breakpoint accumulation matches
the period of volume accumulation.
• Combined Year without Breakpoint Proration. The first partial year is combined
with the second year. A blended annual breakpoint is calculated for the
combined period, converted to a 12-month value. This is used as the basis for
breakpoints for all methods. Since the combined year is longer than 12 months,
and the sales are accumulated for that longer period, the breakpoint accumulation
is not matched to the volume accumulation and the breakpoint is not, in effect,
annualized.
• No Proration. The breakpoints are used as entered, without proration. There is
no interaction or combination between values in the first partial year and the
second year.
4.1.1.14. Month-to-Month Roll Forward of Variable Rent Agreements
If a lease is in Month-to-Month status, the user can choose to automatically extend the
variable rent agreement with each monthly roll-forward of the Month-to-Month
extension.
4.1.1.15. Enhancement to Cumulative Calculation Method
When the overage rate for calculation of variable rent changes mid-year, accumulation of
volume recommences. Breakpoints are prorated to the length of the ‘cumulative cycle’
determined by sales year end dates or rate changes.
4.1.1.16. Allowances and Abatements
There are a number of enhancements related to allowances and abatements. Users can:
• Create multiple allowances with effective dates.
• Specify whether allowances or abatements are to be applied first.
• Select terms for recurring abatement at the time that agreements are created.
• Roll forward recurring abatement selections automatically and have the system
apply abatements automatically as part of the variable rent calculation process.
• Enter amounts for ‘Fixed Abatement.’ This is a new type of abatement. A fixed
abatement is an amount entered by the user to be applied as abatement for each
invoice period, much like the system applies the amount of recurring abatement
terms each invoice period.
4.1.1.17. Carry Forward of Excess Abatement as Negative Rent
Users can now control through an agreement parameter whether excess abatement
amounts are treated as negative rent.
4.1.1.18. Constraints
Users can now set start and end dates for constraints for the life of the agreement rather
than setting them up for each year.
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4.1.1.19. Updating Volumes
Users can now update previously entered volume amounts through the Variable Rent
Gateway, where previously the only way to do an adjustment was by entering an
additional volume record (with a positive or negative adjusting amount).
4.1.1.20. Additional Frequency Attribute
The attribute called ‘Reporting Frequency’ in previous functionality determined two
different frequencies, which sometimes should have had different values. This attribute
has been split into two attributes:
• Calculation Frequency. The frequency with which variable rent is calculated.
This was the primary purpose of the former ‘Reporting Frequency.’
• Reporting Frequency. The frequency with which the tenant is required to report
volumes. This frequency does not affect calculations but does affect the logic by
which the Variable Rent Gateway creates default volume entry rows.
4.1.1.21. Streamlining of Adjustments
Users can now recalculate variable rent at any time, to accommodate for changed
volume, breakpoints or other factors. The system will create adjusting terms if necessary.
There is no longer a separate adjustment process.
4.1.1.22. Form Enhancements
There have been many enhancements to layouts and navigation, decreasing the number of
screens and improving usability.
• A number of multi-row views have been converted to folder blocks to allow for
user configuration.
• Drilldowns have been added between the invoice review screen and the line item
review screen.
• Multi-row views have been combined on a single screen with a primary-detail
relationship to reduce the number of screens and present information in a more
intuitive layout.
4.1.1.23. Display of Calculation Results
Users can review in detail, on-screen, the calculation that resulted in the variable rent
amount, regardless of which method is used for the agreement.
4.1.1.24. Variable Rent Templates
Users may select a variable rent template to populate many of the attributes of a variable
rent agreement. This reduces data entry effort and error.
4.1.1.25. Term Template Enhancements
Users can now create, edit and save term templates from within the variable rent
agreement. Now, users can maintain a relatively small number of generic term templates
to use as the starting point for term detail defaults for variable rent agreements. The user
will select a generic term template then, if necessary, make a copy with changes specific
to the agreement.
4.1.1.26. Processing by Property
Property has been added as a parameter to the concurrent process for calculation of
variable rent so that users can now select agreements by property for batch calculation.
4.1.1.27. Improved Variable Rent Report
An improved report has been introduced for reporting calculated variable rent.
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4.1.1.28. Early Termination of Rent Increase Agreements
The user can now end rent increase agreements as of any date, either directly or by
terminating a lease. The system will create adjusting and/or reversing items as necessary.
4.1.1.29. Extension of Rent Increase Agreements
The user can now extend the length of rent increase agreements, or have the system
extend the agreement automatically when a lease is extended.
4.1.1.30. Month-to-Month Roll Forward
If a lease is in Month-to-Month status, the user can choose to automatically extend the
rent increase agreement with each monthly roll-forward of the Month-to-Month
extension.
4.1.1.31. Index Multiplier
Users can now specify a multiplier to be applied for rent increases based on an index
value. The amount specified is multiplied times the calculated change in the index
amount and the rent is changed by the resulting value rather than by the actual index
change percentage.
4.1.1.32. Proration
The system will now prorate constraints on rent increase for partial years.
4.1.1.33. Term Length
One compounding rent increase calculation method has been changed so that rent
increase terms are created only for the length of the assessment period rather than to the
end of the lease. This is appropriate for this method so that users now do not need to
manually change the term lengths.
4.1.1.34. Include/Exclude Option
A system option has been introduced that controls how terms are selected to form the
basis for rent increases. With previous functionality, all terms of the selected type were
selected by default for inclusion and users would deselect terms as appropriate. An
organization now can choose whether terms are included or excluded by default. Users
will still have complete control at the individual agreement level.
4.1.1.35. Recurring Backbill Terms
An option has been introduced that controls whether backbill terms are created as one-
time terms or as recurring terms. If they are created as recurring terms, the transaction
date for all resulting schedules is set to the same date, which is the date that the term was
approved.
4.1.1.36. Rent Increase Report
An improved report has been introduced for reporting calculated rent increases.
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• All common ways of determining the pro rata basis for expense recovery, such as
occupied area with floor
• Multiple pro rata bases within a single agreement
• Administration fees and anchor contributions
• Rules governing recovery of different expense groups or pools, within a single
agreement, such as whether a type of expense is subject to fees or cap
• All common methods for calculating caps and minimums
• Different reconciliation frequencies
• Whether rent is subject to tax
• Stop amounts
• How reconciliation credits can be applied
• Standard expense group naming, for cross-portfolio comparisons
• Critical date rules, such as audit period and statement and payment due dates
• Extensive notes, by category.
4.1.1.38. Enter and Maintain Estimated Payment Terms
If the agreement requires the tenant to make estimated payments based on landlord
budgets, the user can create the payment term through the Operating Expense Agreement.
Estimated payment amounts are often adjusted by landlords annually or at other intervals.
The user can enter new amounts through the Agreement and the system will create the
appropriate term, including a catch-up term if needed. A history of the changing amount
is thus captured and displayed, with percent change.
4.1.1.39. Reconciliation
Reconciliation is created for each agreement for each reconciliation period. The user can
record information from the landlord reconciliation statement and use the reconciliation
screens as a ‘workbench’ for doing a desktop audit of the reconciliation statement.
Features include:
• Key entry, from the landlord reconciliation statement, of information not
available to the user from other sources, such as actual landlord expenses.
• Optional entry of the same items, in an ‘Expected’ column, if the user
has information that conflicts with the values presented by the landlord.
• Presentation by the system of information that is known based on the Operating
Expense Agreement, previous payments, and prior reconciliations, such as
calculated cap amount, agreement fee percentage and amount already paid as
estimated payments.
• Optional entry of the same items in the ‘Statement’ column, if the
amounts on the landlord statement are not the same as expected.
• Detailed presentation of the operating expense obligation calculation, in side-by-
side layout, showing the values from the landlord statement next to the values
expected by the user. The calculation includes caps, fees, contributions,
occupancy adjustments and stops, pro rata share calculation, and prior payment
amounts.
• Presentations of the percent change over the prior period for each expense group,
the total landlord expense, and the tenant share of expenses.
• Printable version of the detailed reconciliation analysis with side-by-side
comparison.
• Simple creation of reconciliation payment term based on the bottom line of the
reconciliation analysis, or simply the payment due amount on the landlord
reconciliation statement.
• Flexible expense year dates, or reconciliation period dates, so that reconciliations
can be done at irregular intervals if needed.
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• Reconciliation notes and direct access to notes related to the agreement and to
prior reconciliations.
• Maintenance of critical dates specific to each reconciliation, such as audit period
end date.
• Tracking of reconciliation and audit status, and users responsible for each.
• Preservation of prior versions of a single reconciliation.
4.1.1.40. Operating Expense Agreement Dashboard
A dashboard presents agreements, reconciliations, and related payment terms that are
likely to need attention, based on user-configurable selection criteria. The dashboard also
has advanced query capability for searching for agreements, reconciliations and/or
payment terms.
Users can select existing objects for view or update, or can initiate creation of new
agreements, reconciliations or payment terms from the dashboard.
Release 12.1.3+
4.1.1.41. Business Event Workflow and Status Update
A new business event approval workflow integrated with approvals manager and lease
status update is now available. A new approval 'Submitted' status has been introduced to
prevent the lease from being updated when the approval workflow has been initiated but
not yet approved or rejected.
4.1.1.42. Lease and Terms APIs
Lease and Terms API’s are now available to programmatically convert legacy system
leases and update existing leases details and payment terms into Oracle Property
Manager.
4.1.1.43. Variable Rent and Breakpoint APIs
The variable rent API’s provide a standard and consistent integration mechanism with
customer’s legacy variable rent systems. The API’s provide users with the ability to
create new or update existing variable rent agreements, to generate periods and
breakpoints, abatements and constraints for Variable Rent.
4.1.1.44. Index Rent APIs
New Index Rent API’s are available to create new or update existing index rent
agreements. Based on parameters provided by the user, the APIs will generate the index
rent details and periods for new and existing agreements.
4.1.1.45. Operating Expense Support for Advance Payments
Tenants create payments for operating expenses through the Oracle Property Manager
Operating Expense Dashboard to prevent duplicate payments and validate compliance
with the operating expense agreement terms. Now they can process one-time advance
payments to the landlord for prepaid expenses, such as estimated tax and insurance
premiums.
4.1.1.46. Normalization Support for Multiple Amendments and Partial Periods
Property Manager renormalizes lease terms when changes are made using either the edit
or amend functions. When users need to amend lease payments mid-month, Property
Manager prorates the normalized amount for the partial month using the selected
proration rule.
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4.1.1.47. Variable Rent Agreement Invoice Date Derivation
A new profile option PN: Variable Rent Billing Date enables you to select the desired
logic to derive the billing period start date. This profile option applies only if you select
GL Calendar for a variable rent agreement. You can set the profile option to one of the
following:
Invoice Period Start Plus 30 Days: This option is the default value and it derives the
billing date as the invoice period start date plus 30 days. You can also leave the profile
option blank to use this option.
Last Date of Calendar Period: This option generates the billing date on the last date of
calendar period.
4.1.1.48. GL Date Derived from Period Name
You have options to derive GL date using the Transfer Normalized Lines to GL
concurrent program. Use the default value, Due Date, to derive the GL Date based on the
due date of the payment schedule. Optionally, you can select Period Name to derive the
GL Date based on the period name associated to the payment schedule.
4.1.1.49. Rent Normalization for Mid-Month Proration
Oracle Property Manager prorates normalized lease payments when the amendment
commencement date is in the middle of the month. For example, when your payments are
monthly and the lease begins mid-month, Property Manager applies the proration rule
you selected in the Details window to prorate the normalized amount for that month.
Release 12.2
4.1.1.50. Override Variable Rent Calculations Client Extensions
The Override Variable Rent Calculation Client Extension provides users the ability to
update and/or override the variable rent amount calculated by Oracle Property Manager.
Release 12.2.8
4.1.1.51. Support for ASC 842 and IFRS 16 for Property and Equipment
Starting in 2019, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial
Accounting Standards Board (FASB) will require adherence to new accounting standards
for lessees (both property and equipment). To meet these new standards, lessees are
required to make significant changes in accounting and reporting by adding their leases to
their balance sheet as lease liabilities with corresponding right-of-use (ROU) assets.
To help address the new accounting requirements, you now have access to the following
capabilities:
• Contract Abstraction and Migration: User Interfaces(UIs) are provided to capture
contractual terms and conditions (attributes) and asset information for leases.
New UIs and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are available to capture
and amend the contracts.
• Lease Accounting Transformation: A new accounting infrastructure provides the
ability to account for and amortize the liability and right-of-use asset. This new
infrastructure includes the ability to determine account codes based on sources
from the equipment lease contract available for subledger accounting rules
configuration.
• Global Lease Management: The solution supports Multi-GAAP with the ability
to account under existing GAAP, IFRS 16, and ASC 842 for the same contract.
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• Flexible Amortization Schedules: Amortization of the ROU asset and lease
liability using various options (e.g., 30/360, 4-4-5, daily calculations) for each
GAAP is provided.
• Support for Foreign Currency: The solution supports and accounts for multiple
currencies on the same contract, providing you the ability to manage your ROU
asset and liability in the entered and functional currencies.
• Enhanced Reporting: There are reports to help with managing the new lease
accounting and disclosures, including the Lease Analysis Report, Lease Detail
Report, Portfolio Detail Report, and Portfolio Summary Report. These reports
combine information from your Property lease portfolio to provide a single view
of all of your leases.
Note: If you have already licensed Oracle E-Business Suite Financials, you are granted a
restricted use of Property Manager Equipment leasing features to enable you to benefit
from the above features to address IFRS 16 and ASC 842.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support Knowledge
Document
12.2.4 and 27606088:R12.PN.C 2388210.1
above 28073854:R12.PN.C
28332098:R12.PN.C.
Release 12.2.9
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• Amendments for re-classification, rate change, contractions, and extensions
using the same amount for the ROU and Lease Liability, which is in line
with IFRS 16 and ASC 842.
• ROU and lease liability balances are carried forward from previous terms by
linking the new terms added during an amendment.
• All the details of the amendment are captured in an audit table to provide
visibility and transparency of contract changes and their financial impact.
The Portfolio Detail Report has been re-designed to separate amendments from the main
sections. Also, original and final numbers are also separated.
The support the long running contracts that rely on the GL calendar for amortizations, the
Daily Calculation option has been improved to create the amortization only through the
periods created in the GL calendar. Users no longer need to create GL periods to match
the length of the longest contract. The remaining liability and ROU balance will be
shown in the last month. As more periods are created, contracts can be re-amortized to
continue the amortization of the balances.
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Release 12.2.10
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Release 12.2.12
The functionality described below for release 12.2.12 is for available for all property expense
leases belonging to an operating unit that has transitioned to the IFRS16 / ASC842 compliance
solution.
4.1.1.65. Lease Versioning
The application assigns a unique version number to every lease during the lease contract
lifecycle. Payment schedules, accruals, and accounting entries individual to each lease state
will have the version number associated with them. The lease version will increment with
every amendment and edit to the lease.
4.1.1.66. Simulations and Reviews through Multiple Iterations
The application enables you to enter the necessary inputs for a lease or amend an existing
lease and generate schedules and balances using the information you provided before
activating the lease. A new review mechanism allows you to review payment schedules,
compliance balances, transactions before finalizing a new lease or a new amendment.
The system enables you to perform multiple iterations and simulations until you have decided
to activate the lease or amendment.
4.1.1.67. Lease Amendment over Multiple Sessions and Discard
The System enables you to save an amendment as a work in progress and resume it later.
Also, you can discard an ongoing amendment.
4.1.1.68. Lease History Tracing
The application enables you to navigate to any prior version of the lease and view all the
details related to the prior version in a read-only mode using a newly introduced tab within
the lease called – Versions.
The details that you view in a read-only mode after navigating to a prior version include the
lease detail report, payment schedule details, discount rate index, amendment key dates
about the old lease version, and much more.
Additionally, the application displays all errors encountered while validating the
lease/amendment, generating the payment schedules, lease detail report, or finalizing the
lease under a newly introduced tab within the lease called – Errors.
4.1.1.70. Inclusion of Rent Increase Balances during lease Booking
The application enables you to attach rent increase agreements to the lease during lease
authoring, thus including the known rent increases into compliance balances for lease
booking. This feature also enables you to calculate rent increases from the lease
commencement date as per compliance requirements.
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4.1.1.71. Rent Increase Amendment
The application enables you to attach rent increase payments on a lease as an amendment.
You can review the rent increase schedules and associated compliance balances before
activating such an amendment. That way you can start the rent increase calculations from a
user-defined amendment commencement date instead of the default system date.
4.1.1.72. Amendment without any Scope Change
You can set an option to use the existing discount rate or use the discount rate effective on
the amendment commencement date.
4.1.1.73. Multi-Level AME Workflow for Lease Authoring and Amendment
You will be able to leverage the full capability of multi-level AME workflow during lease
booking and lease amendment. You can send a request for approval to multiple approvers
before activating any new lease entered in the system or any amendment to an existing lease.
Also, the workflow notification for approvers and requestors has been enhanced to provide the
essential details related to the lease/amendment.
4.1.1.74. Lease Detail Report Enhancement
The lease detail report displays additional information for the payment terms participating in
an amendment to depict the changes to cash flow and compliance balances due to the
amendment. The additional information includes changes to cash flows, rate change, opening
ROU/Liability balances for mid-period amendments, reversed amortization/interest/liability,
and many more.
Additionally, the header section of the lease detail report provides more information, such as
the lease booking date, booking ROU/Liability/Reserve, the transition date of the OU, the
primary regime, and more.
The Oracle Lease Contracts Command Center feature is available at no additional cost to
licensed users of Oracle Financials or Oracle Property Manager. It can be applied to
Release 12.2.4 and above.
Release 12.2.9++
The following functionality requires Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework
Release 12.2 V4.
4.2.1.1. Lease Contracts Dashboard
With key metrics and charts, users can identify key risks or activities, such as leases
coming to end of term or upcoming options and take the best course of action to reduce
future liability. By maintaining a single repository of leases, organizations improve their
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lease negotiations to reduce costs. For example, users can compare leases across their
portfolio to identify the best cost for similar assets or property and use that information to
improve negotiations.
Release 12.2.10+
The following functionality requires Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework (ECC)
Release 12.2 V7.
4.2.1.2. Export Dashboard to PDF
You can now export data from the Lease Contracts dashboard to a PDF, which you can
print or share electronically for team collaboration.
Release 12.2.11+
The following functionality requires Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework (ECC)
Release 12.2 V8.
4.2.1.3. New Layout with Search Input and Filters at Top of Dashboard
At top of the Lease Contracts dashboard, you can with fewer clicks enter a general
search. In a second field, you can view the resulting filters, and add or remove filters.
The original refinements that used to be shown on the left-hand side of each dashboard
are now hidden by default to allow more data display within each dashboard.
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